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Dutch Heerema picks up Taiwanese offshore construction contracts
TAIWAN
DUTCH offshore contractor Heerema is to install turbine foundations at Ørsted’s 900MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a projects o Taiwan.
e Dutch marine contractor will transport and install 111 turbine foundations as well as two large o shore substations at a site 35-60km o the coast of Changhua County at water depths of 30-35 metres. e installation will be executed by Heerema’s fast sailing heavy-li vessel Aegir, which is already in the area for another project.
“Heerema has got what it takes to be a leader in the renewables market,” said Heerema CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven.
“We will continue to participate in ambitious and sustainable projects like Greater Changhua,” he added.
Heerema will carry out the o shore work at Greater Changhua 1 and 2a during 2021 and 2022, while complying with relevant local con- tent regulations in relation to support vessels and crews.
The deal is Heerema’s second this year in Taiwan. In July, it signed a contract to install 21 jacket foundations for the Changhua Wind Farm Phase 1 project, located 8km o the coast of Changhua County, at a water depth of 18 to 28 metres.
e heavy-li vessel Aegir will also carry out this installation project. It is able to withstand the harsh conditions o shore Taiwan. e founda- tions must be able to withstand extreme Taiwan- ese circumstances such as earthquakes, typhoons and high waves.
e Changhua Wind Farm Phase 1 project is situated in Taiwanese waters and is a project of the Taiwan Power Co. (TPC) and is being exe- cuted by a consortium of Jan de Nul and Hitachi.
Further o shore, the Greater Changhua o - shore wind projects consist of four sites in the Taiwan Strait, between 35km and 60km o the coast of Changhua County.
Ørsted has obtained site exclusivity fpr four o shore wind sites with a planned total genera- tioncapacityof2.4GW,andin2018wasawarded capacity for two projects of 900 MW and 920 MW.™
GE’s Cypress turbines to be used at Australia’s Bango Wind Farm
AUSTRALIA
GE’S pioneering 5.3MW Cypress onshore wind turbines are to be used at Partners Group’s 244MW Bango Wind Farm in Australia.
Partners Group, a global private markets investment manager, con rmed the choice of technology as it announced its investment in the AUD500mn ($338mn) Bango project in New South Wales.
e investment manager will lead the opera- tional roll-out of Bango, which will comprise 46 GE Cypress turbines, the largest onshore turbine currently in production.
Construction at Bango will commence in August 2019, with the farm expected to be oper- ational by the middle of 2021.
Bango already has a 15-year offtake con- tract in place with Snowy Hydro for 100 MW of capacity. e wind farm will save 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
“Bango will be Partners Group’s h renew- ables project in Australia, bringing our total renewables commitment in the country to almost AUD1.2bn ($812mn) to-date,” said Andrew Kwok, managing director and head of
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