Lamprell to supply transition pieces for two offshore wind projects

RWE awarded Lamprell two contracts on Sept. 26 covering the future supply of transition pieces for the Norfolk Vanguard West and East offshore wind developments in the UK southern North Sea.

Once built, these should provide a combined total installed generating capacity of 2.8 GW.

Lamprell’s manufacture and supply scope covers two deliveries of 92 transition pieces followed by transportation of the structures to RWE’s official marshalling port (location yet to be determined).

The UAE fabricator will deploy its new serial production line, commissioned in 2023, which earlier this year completed its first project comprising similar structures for a wind farm offshore Scotland.

Vanguard West, Vanguard East and Norfolk Boreas form the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone. RWE acquired all three in March and each has a planned capacity of 1.4 GW.

They will be constructed in an area 47 km to 80 km from the coast of Norfolk in eastern England. All three projects already have in place seabed rights, grid connections, development consent orders and other permits.

Work has already started onshore on building the substations and underground cable route between Necton and Happisburgh. RWE will enter the Norfolk Vanguard projects into a future UK contracts for difference auction.