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Partrac to support Triton Knoll construction

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 17/10/2019 Triton Knoll
UK based coastal and marine geoscience company Partrac has been commissioned to supply, install and maintain navigation and metocean equipment for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm as the project prepares for offshore construction in January 2020.

Partrac will supply and install 12 buoys to demarcate the offshore construction site and act as navigation aids to mariners.It will also supply, install and maintain two metocean buoys which are designed to gather information about offshore conditions, helping support operational decision-making during the construction phase.

Partrac Director Sam Athey said: “We are delighted to be providing real-time, safety critical wave and current data for Triton Knoll. The metocean data will be used daily to help plan, inform and increase the safety of hundreds of heavy lifts and personnel transfers, plus boulder clearance, subsea and cable lay operations during it’s construction phase.”


Julian Garnsey, Project Director for Triton Knoll and innogy, said “Completing construction of Triton Knoll safely depends on having excellent management of the offshore site area which totals well over 50 square kilometres. This contract with Partrac is a critical part of that management system.”


“It’s very encouraging for the UK’s future in global offshore wind that a home-grown company is able to provide such critical and specialist support for Triton Knoll. Helping develop that expertise is important to Triton Knoll, and so we are very pleased to be working with Partrac to further develop the UK capabilities in this sector.”


Located 32km off the coast of Lincolnshire in the east of England,
Triton Knoll is being developed by innogy (59%), J-Power (25%), and Kansai Electric Power (16%). The wind farm will feature 90 V164-9.5 MW turbines mounted on monopile foundations connected by over 100km of cabling. The wind farm will enter offshore construction in the first half of 2020 with first power anticipated 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

During construction of
Triton Knoll, the project is expected to support around 3,000 jobs, and 170 during operation, with the project expected to trigger a capital expenditure investment of around £2 billion into the UK energy infrastructure.

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