Andy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:38 pm
Fintray wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 1:52 pm
Quite a lot of wind turbine components sitting in the port of Dundee, I don't know which windfarm they are for.
likely for the Moray field.
Port of Dundee is the marshalling and pre-assembly yard for EDF's 459 MW (54 x 8 MW turbines) Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm, 15.5km east of Fife Ness in the outer Firth of Forth. Has had quite a difficult development process - it was originally awarded a CfD in AR1.
https://nngoffshorewind.com/
Port of Nigg in the Cromarty Firth is currently supporting the SSE's AR3 1,075 MW (114 x 10 MW) Seagreen 1 project which is about 27km east of Arbroath. Its grid connection is to Tealing in Angus. A further 36 turbines are consented but are being developed as the separate Seagreen 1A project with a grid connection to Port Cockenzie in East Lothian.
https://www.seagreenwindenergy.com/
Nigg previously supported the construction of Ocean Wind's AR2 950 MW (100 x 9.5 MW) Moray East wind farm, which was completed last year. It sits 22km off the Caithness coast in the outer Moray Firth and is connected to Blackhillock substation in Moray.
https://www.morayeast.com/
The largest operating substation in the UK, Blackhillock is also the connection point for the neighbouring Beatrice offshore wind farm and a 300 MW / 600 MWh BESS project By Zenobe.
https://www.beatricewind.com/
https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/ ... ckhillock/
Ocean Wind, an JV between EDPR annd Engie, also plan to use Nigg again for their 882 MW (60 x 14.7 MW) Moray West project, next door to Moray East. This project only reached financial close in April following the award of a CfD in AR4 last year and has only just begun onshore construction. It'll connect to the new Whitehillock substation in Moray. It's a particularly interesting project to watch as only a third of the capacity is secured against a CfD, with 50% instead linked to a Commercial Power Purchase Agreement and the remaining 20% to be sold on a merchant basis.
https://www.moraywest.com/
https://community.ionanalytics.com/how- ... e-paid-off
Ocean Winds have a third Moray project in development named Caledonia Wind Farm, which at 2 GW will supply more power than Moray East and Moray West combined.
https://www.caledoniaoffshorewind.com/