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the growing Vietnamese nearshore market. In Vietnam, Siemens Gamesa has built three
Hiep Thanh is being developed by Eco- wind farms, with seven more wind farms under
Tech Tra Vinh Renewables and its investors, construction. In the last three years, the company
Janakuasa, Ecotech Vietnam, Climate Investor has sold approximately 550 MW in this market.
One, which is managed by Climate Fund Man- Siemens Gamesa has so far installed more
agers (CFM), and ST International. than 8.4 GW of onshore turbines in China, Paki-
Siemens Gamesa formed a consortium with stan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia,
PowerChina Huadong Engineering, the lead- the Philippines, Thailand, Australia and New
ing engineering and construction company in Zealand.
China’s offshore wind power industry, to deliver On the offshore side, the company completed
an engineering, procurement and construction the installation of Taiwan’s first offshore wind
(EPC) offering to the customer. power project in 2019 (128 MW) and in addi-
The wind farm will feature 18 units of the SG tion reached close to 2 GW of firm orders in the
5.0-145 turbine, which are among the largest tur- island.
bines on the Vietnamese market.
StormGeo wins weather contract for
Japan’s Akita Noshiro wind farm
P JAPAN’S Kajima Corp. has contracted deep industry knowledge, long-term expe-
StormGeo for the provision of weather forecast- rience in the waters surrounding Japan and
ing services for the first multi-turbine offshore decade-long experience in typhoon forecast-
wind farm in Japan. ing make StormGeo the ideal weather service
Acting on behalf of the project owner, the provider for the Akita and Noshiro wind farm
Akita Offshore Wind Corp., Kajima has brought project.”
in StormGeo to provide the Akita Noshiro wind his will be the first weather forecasting assign-
farm with weather, wave and typhoon forecast- ment in coastal waters in Japan for StormGeo.
ing in support of the 20-month offshore con- Forecasting will be delivered from StormGeo’s
struction phase. regional weather centre in Dubai, UAE and
The offshore construction on the project typhoon warnings delivered by StormGeo trop-
kicked off in Akita in mid-January 2021. ical forecasting centre in Houston, Texas. Pro-
The deal brings into focus the importance of ject management will be provided from Europe,
accurate weather and wave data for wind farms, whilst StormGeo staff in Tokyo will assist in
especially in Japan, where the offshore industry adapting the services in Japanese.
is in its infancy. “This project is another important milestone
The Akita Noshiro wind farm will be the first for offshore renewables in StormGeo. Building
commercial-size fixed bottom wind farm in on our many years of experience from both
Japan. The 139-MW project comprises two sites Europe and Taiwan, it is inspiring to be able to
off the port of Akita and port of Noshiro. contribute to the success and growth of offshore
“We chose StormGeo because they are one wind in Japan. We very much look forward to
of the most experienced providers of metocean working with Kajima,” COO of Weather Insights
forecasting services for offshore wind, with more at StormGeo Jostein Maelan said.
than 100 offshore wind projects both in and out- 13 Vestas V117-4.2MW typhoon variant tur-
side Europe,” said Koki Taguchi, general project bines will be installed at the Akita site, while the
manager for Kajima. Noshiro site will comprise 20 turbines. The com-
”StormGeo also has Japanese staff located in missioning of the wind farm is slated for 2022.
Japan who will support us locally. StormGeo’s
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