Offshore staff
PARIS, France — TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables have delivered first power from the Seagreen wind farm in the UK North Sea, 27 km off the coast of Angus, eastern Scotland.
The first of the 114 wind turbines was commissioned yesterday, and the 1,075-MW development should be fully operational in the first half of 2023.
According to TotalEnergies, the $4.3 billion project will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm to date and the world’s deepest fixed bottom wind farm, in a water depth of 59 m.
In June 2020, the company entered an agreement with SSE Renewables to take a 51% stake in the Seagreen project.
When fully operational, it will produce about 5 terawatt hours of renewable electricity per year.
The generated power generated will be exported to the grid via a new substation at Tealing near Dundee. A further 36 offshore wind turbines are consented but not yet constructed; in their case, the power will be exported to the grid via Cockenzie.
In January the partners submitted a screening report to Marine Scotland to increase the size of the 36 consented turbines.
Offshore wind service company Edda Wind celebrated the naming ceremony of Edda Brint, its latest service operation vessel, on June 17 at the Astilleros Balenciaga Shipyard in Zumaia, Spain. At the time, the company said Edda Brint would be deployed for the Seagreen project in Scotland.In addition to Seagreen, TotalEnergies is a partner in the Erebus (96 MW) and Valorous (300 MW) floating offshore windfarm developments in Wales and, in a consortium with Corio Generation, has the rights to develop a 1.5-GW wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire (Outer Dowsing), eastern England.
Earlier this year, the same duo, plus RIDG, secured leasing rights to develop the 2-GW West of Orkney Windfarm under the Scotwind leasing process.
08.23.2022
