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First foundations for 3.2GW Chinese pipeline

By: Tom Russell 18/02/2019 Ramboll

Foundations General Windfarms

Two units of around 500 offshore wind turbine foundations have been designed and manufactured for State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC) Guangdong Offshore Wind Power Ltd. They were designed by Danish engineering consultancy Ramboll and manufactured by Huadian Heavy Industry Co.,Ltd.
The foundations are among the largest in the world, weighing in the region of 1,600 tonnes each, and are to be installed in Chinese waters in depths up to 37m.

Ramboll also provided consultancy on geotechnical and met ocean investigations and has calculated how the turbines, earthquakes, waves, current and tide will impact the structures and how they will react to typhons. The area was hit by no less than 18 typhoons during the 2018 typhoon season.

”Ramboll completed the design of the two monopiles super-fast so that the design and fabrication took less than 5 months, which is 2-3 times faster than usual. Our comprehensive experience from the design of offshore wind farms in Europe and our in-house design programme enabled us to do it so quickly,” says Ramboll Global Market Director Søren Juel Petersen.

Project developer SPIC Guangdong Offshore Wind Power Ltd. has secured permits for installation of 3.2 GW offshore wind energy in China’s Guangdong province. The offshore wind farms will be located near Shenzhen and Jieyang and are expected to provide enough to supply three million households with power.

“Guangdong is the province with the highest GDP in mainland China, and it is also one of the richest and the most populous in the nation. In this province we see an increasing demand for energy as well as a demand to reduce air pollution in the cities. We can meet the demand from the population for clean energy with wind energy, which can now commercially compete with coal and other fossil fuels. So we need this wind farm now and we need it fast”, says Zhang Yi, Chief Engineer of SPIC Guangdong Electric Power Co., Ltd.

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