RES Offshore has followed up the successful
installation of the WoDS offshore met mast with a contract to carry out
the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the met mast and equipment for
the next 5 years. The mast was installed in August this year at the 389MW
West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea for project owners
DONG Energy and Scottish Power Renewables and is situated approximately
14 nautical miles off the Cumbrian coast.
The O&M services to be delivered by RES include scheduled and unscheduled
maintenance on the structure, platform and lattice tower together with
the maintenance of the instrumentation and power systems which also formed
part of the EPC contract.
The West of Duddon Sands met mast award
adds yet another O&M contract to RES’ increasing portfolio of offshore
masts that it manages and operates across UK waters for clients including
SMart Wind, Forewind, DONG Energy, ORE Catapult and DONG/Scottish Power
Renewables.
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In addition to these long term O&M
contracts RES has carried out extensive repair, maintenance and upgrade
campaigns on four other UK offshore met masts making in excess of 20 visits
to offshore met masts in 2014.
Chris Morgan, CEO of RES Offshore,
commented;
“Designing, building, repairing
and maintaining offshore met masts and data collection systems all rely
on our in-house expertise which we have developed over 30 years of wind
measurement including 15 years of offshore experience. We understand
the value of high quality wind and metocean data and delivering this safely
and with high reliably is what our clients want and what we deliver. Our
track record, experience and expertise in this specialist field are second
to none and we are looking forward to expanding our offshore met mast O&M
portfolio further in UK waters and across Europe.”
Steve Clarke, Head of Operations
at West of Duddon Sands said:
"West of Duddon Sands is now
an important part of the growing UK offshore wind energy fleet and we value
the support of expert service providers like RES who help to ensure that
our monitoring equipment is maintained which enables us to focus on generating
low carbon electricity supplies."
