Westermost Rough Wind Farm
Westermost Rough Wind Farm | |
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Rotor diameter |
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Site area | 35 km2 (14 sq mi) |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 35 × 6 MW |
Make and model | Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 (35) |
Nameplate capacity |
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External links | |
Commons | Related media on Commons |
Westermost Rough Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm 8 kilometres (5 mi) north east of Withernsea off the Holderness coast, in the North Sea, England. The farm covers an area of approximately 35 km2 (14 sq mi) with a generation capacity of approximately 210 MW. It became operational in May 2015.
History
The Westermost Wind farm site was originally awarded to
A planning application was submitted in November 2009,[4] and consent was given by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2011 for a development of up to 80 turbines of up to 245 MW power with a limit of 172 m (564 ft) turbine tip height, and 150 m (490 ft) rotor diameter, as well as associated onshore and offshore substations, cabling and other infrastructure.[5]
Initial expectations were for an earliest in service date of 2014,[4] in January 2013 construction of the wind farm was confirmed, with construction scheduled to start in 2014 with the farm operational by 2015.[6][7][8]
DONG Energy sold a 50% stake in the wind farm in equal parts to the
Design, manufacture and construction
The wind farm is located 8 km (5 mi) off the Holderness coast, roughly northeast of Withernsea.[n 2] The proposed design is for 35 to 80 turbines of between 3 and 7 MW power output, in an area of 35 km2 (14 sq mi), with a total installed capacity of up to 245 MW.[12]
The offshore substation design was subcontracted to Ramboll,[13] with medium voltage turbine to offshore transformer submarine cables supplied by Nexans.[14] High voltage 155 kV submarine export cables and 155/275 kV underground cables were contracted to be supplied from LS Cable & System of Korea.[15][16] The cable landing point is to be near Tunstall, East Riding of Yorkshire, with a national grid connection made via the buried cables to a new substation at Salt End.[17]
The project was the first commercial use of gearless 6 MW
A dual Doppler radar system, (originally developed by the US National Wind Institute,[23][24] and supplied by SmartWind Technologies, LLC.[25]) was used to measure high-density wind details over the large wind farm area, with the experiment supported by the Carbon Trust organisation.[26][27]
Operations
The wind farm was commissioned and became operational in May 2015.
In May 2015,
In 2017, DONG Energy rebranded themselves as Ørsted as the acronym for DONG Energy - Danish Oil & Natural Gas - was seen as inappropriate for a company which had divested its entire oil and gas operations and was building an energy portfolio that was approaching 100% renewable.[39]
Notes
- ^ Westernmost Rough Limited, incorporated 1 May 2007, company number 0623914. Source: Companies House database
- ^ Boundaries of the wind farm are at grid locations 53°50.5754′N 00°09.6150′E / 53.8429233°N 0.1602500°E, 53°47.9824′N 00°12.7432′E / 53.7997067°N 0.2123867°E, 53°46.1311′N 00°08.3651′E / 53.7688517°N 0.1394183°E, 53°48.7222′N 00°05.2348′E / 53.8120367°N 0.0872467°E, and 53°50.5754′N 00°09.6150′E / 53.8429233°N 0.1602500°E. (London Gazette, 18 June 2012)
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- ^ LS Cable & System, first in Korea to enter European submarine cable market, LS Cable & System, 5 February 2013, retrieved 31 January 2014,
LS Cable & System announced on the 5th the supply of 150kV level submarine cables, 150kV&275kV extra high-voltage underground cable and connection materials to a scale of 16 million Euros (approx. KRW 23 billion) to Dong Energy, [... to] be used in an offshore wind power generation complex to be built in Westermost Rough on the Southeastern Coast of the U.K. [...] the extra high-voltage underground cables will be used to transmit electric energy [...] to an inland transmission site.
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Sources
- "Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm - Non technical summary" (PDF). DONG Energy. October 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- "Westermost Rough Ltd (Notice Code 2301)". The London Gazette (60183): 11610. 18 June 2012.
External links
- Westernmost Rough Wind Farm, DONG Energy, retrieved 26 September 2012
- Westernmost Rough Offshore Wind Farm, DONG Energy UK, retrieved 19 February 2013
- "Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm", www.4coffshore.com, retrieved 26 September 2012