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Esvagt Froude on duty at Triton Knoll

By: Tom Russell 09/03/2020 Triton Knoll

General Vessels

innogy has put crew aboard the Esvagt Froude service operations vessel to work at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, off the Lincolnshire coast. A team is permanently based onboard, and will be part of a team of up to 45 people who are supporting the installation of the project.

It is the first time innogy, which is managing the construction of the project on behalf of its partners, has established its team offshore rather than at an onshore location, and claims the move will improve the efficiency of the project delivery.

Every two weeks, the team of construction, health & safety and marine operations coordinators will return to port to rotate with colleagues from across the project, who will head offshore in their place.

The vessel and crew rotation will all take place out of Grimsby’s Offshore Construction Coordination Base, in Royal Dock, and will spark a wave of intense dockside activity for both the construction team and the fleet of local support services required to prepare and restock the vessel for its next trip. During the early stages alone, the dock will be managing up to 90 Triton Knoll personnel, as two specialist teams swap places for the next trip offshore. As more vessels join the construction programme, that figure will increase.

Esvagt Froude has already made its first visit to the port and complete its first rotations. The vessel features a “walk to work” system and will continue to operate for the duration of the construction works. The vessel is supported by Isle of Wight company Seacat Services, which is providing two crew transfer vessels for specialist crew transfer and logistical support, which are also operating out of Grimsby.

Located 32km off the coast of Lincolnshire in the east of England, Triton Knoll is being owned by innogy (59%), J-Power (25%), and Kansai Electric Power (16%) with innogy managing the construction as well as the long-term operation and maintenance works, on behalf of its project partners.

The wind farm will feature 90 V164-9.5 MW turbines mounted on monopile foundations connected by over 100km of cabling. The wind farm is expected to produce first power in 2021. Once fully operational, it will be capable of generating enough renewable energy to power the equivalent of over 800,000 typical UK households

The project's first turbine foundation was hammered into place in January 2020. Each foundation consists of a steel monopile which weighs on average 600 tonnes and measures around 54 metres long as well as a transition piece.

Onshore progress was made during 2019 to construct the project’s electrical system, which consists of a 57km underground onshore export cable, a new landfall connection and purpose-built onshore substation. Construction is due to finish in 2020 and will ensure the project is all set to transmit power, via the offshore substations which were mechanically completed in 2019, into the national grid network and ultimately over 800,000 UK homes.

In 2021, the focus of construction will shift to the installation and energisation of the powerful 9.5MW turbines, with Triton Knoll anticipating the first electricity to flow from the wind farm into the UK National Grid later that year.

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Esvagt Froude on duty at Triton Knoll

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