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ORE look for 7MW pick up

By: Lewis Holdsworth 02/07/2015 ORE

General Turbines

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has today announced that it is in discussions with Samsung Heavy Industries about potentially acquiring the 7MW offshore wind turbine at Methil for research purposes.

Upon completion of the agreement, the Methil turbine would become the world’s most advanced, open access, offshore wind turbine dedicated to research. It would provide UK industry and academia with unrivalled opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of operations and maintenance of offshore wind turbines and thus drive down the cost of delivering clean energy from offshore wind.

It would enable considerable training and development of skills vital for the offshore wind industry.

The discussions are on-going and the Catapult will shortly be seeking quotations through the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for Operations & Maintenance support for the turbine in the event of completion of the transfer of ownership.

The nacelle is the biggest of its kind in the world. Samsung has received POWERS award for the development of the 7MW offshore wind turbine prototype on May 2013, the award consists of GBP 6.04million.

Nacelle and drivetrain were delivered to the Narec testing centre in Northumberland in August 2013. During the six-month testing programme of the nacelle, which began in autumn 2013, some of the harshest climatic conditions will be simulated.

The blades are being shipped from Denmark where they have been manufactured by SSP Technology. This will also allow Samsung to set up serial blade production in Korea using the mould set developed by SSP. Samsung launched a strategic review of it's offshore operations and has halted its plans to test the drive train at NAREC.

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