The Diplomat
The business alliance formed by Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables will build for Iberdrola a total of 21 monopiles for the Windanker offshore wind farm in German waters in the Baltic Sea, which will have a capacity of 315 megawatts (MW) once it is commissioned in 2026, the companies announced.
This is the fourth order of this kind of structures for the consortium, in which the public naval group acts through its division Navantia Seanergies, and the ‘second that Iberdrola contracts for this type of foundation’.
The production of these infrastructures will be developed in the joint facilities of the business alliance in the Navantia shipyard in Fene and will involve 420,000 hours of work during ten months, with ‘around 210 jobs between Navantia, Windar and auxiliary industry’.
These substructures, according to Navantia and Windar, will have ‘maximum dimensions of 84 metres in length, 10 metres in diameter and 2,100 tonnes in weight’ and will be located in a park in German waters.
The Windanker site, according to both companies, ‘will have a capacity of 315 megawatts once it is commissioned in 2026, incorporating 15 megawatts of new generation turbines that will supply the German electricity market’.
In view of this plan, they have indicated that it ‘demonstrates the leadership’ of the consortium in this field by adding ‘a new contract to those already awarded for a value of more than 1,000 million euros, thus consolidating a relationship of more than nine years with Iberdrola, with orders for wind farms in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States’.
Navantia’s chairman, Ricardo Domínguez, said that the contract ‘contributes to boosting work at the shipyard and the development of the offshore wind supply chain’ in Spain ‘preparing it for a growing demand that has only just begun’.
For his part, Windar Renovables CEO Orlando Alonso said the order is ‘further evidence of the high level of quality of our products and the reliability of our processes’ and predicted ‘a strong increase in activity in the sector’.
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