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Jan De Nul installs first jacket foundation for Taipower demonstration

By: Tom Russell 13/08/2020 Jan De Nul Group

General Windfarms

Jan De Nul Group is on track with construction of the Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project – Demonstration (TPC). The very first jacket foundations have been installed in Taiwanese waters, approximately 10km off the coast of Fangyuan in Changhua County. Onshore, the civil works for the connection of the offshore wind farm are completed.

To date, a total of nine jacket foundations, weighing approximately 1,100 metric tonnes each, have been installed on the seabed by means of the offshore installation vessel Aegir, which Jan De Nul Group chartered from Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors for the foundation installation campaign.

“Two years have passed prior to installing the first jacket foundation offshore. We are therefore more than delighted that the installation has been successful”, saID Peter De Pooter, Manager Offshore Renewables at Jan De Nul Group.

In total, the TPC Offshore Wind Farm will comprise 21 offshore wind turbines, each installed on a jacket foundation, which are anchored to the seabed by four steel pin piles. Installation of these pin piles started in June this year. After installing the jackets on the pin piles, the void between these two is grouted to create a firm connection.

All 21 jackets have been manufactured at the South Korean Shipyard Company Samkang, and measure between 55 m and 62 m in overall height. Five trips are needed for the two chartered heavy transport vessels to bring all jackets from South Korea to Taiwan.

The jackets include a 7.2 m high Transition Piece (TP) with a diameter of 5.4 m to support the towers carrying the Hitachi 5.2 MW turbines. Each jacket comes with two davit cranes for cargo hoisting and two boat landings to enable personnel access. The jackets are equipped with specialized offshore accessories such as navigation lights, foghorns and CCTV cameras.

In the meantime, Jan De Nul Group has completed all onshore civil works needed for the connection of the offshore wind farm to the Taiwanese power grid. For the connection of the subsea cable at the landfall with the onshore substation of Changhua County, Jan De Nul Group constructed 13 km of duct banks in collaboration with the Taiwanese company Star Energy Corporation.

Consortium partner Hitachi Ltd. is continuing to mobilise the turbine components to the marshalling port of Taichung, to allow preparation for offshore installation in August with Jan De Nul’s Offshore jack-up Installation Vessel Taillevent.

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