Barrow Offshore Wind Farm

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Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is operated by Dong Energy offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.

General

The wind farm is located about 7 km southwest of the island of Walney Iceland near Barrow-in- Furness and was built in a water depth of 15 to 20 meters. The installed capacity is 90 MW. For use 30 wind turbines of the type Vestas V90- 3MW come with a rotor diameter of 90 m and a hub height of 75 m, which were built on the monopile. The wind farm consists of four 750 m spaced rows of wind turbines, which are formed by two rows of seven and two of eight wind turbines. Within the ranks of the distance from turbine to turbine is 500 m.

The power generated is fed into the substation in Heysham, with the wind farm 's own transformer station is connected via a submarine cable. In the same substation and the Ormonde offshore wind farm feeds. In this, the voltage of 33 kV ( voltage level of the wind turbines) is transformed to 132 kV. A power output of 305 GWh is expected per year, which corresponds to an average power of about 35 MW of which 65,000 British households can be supplied. The efficiency of the units is thus around 39%.

History

Initial planning for the offshore wind farm were carried out by the company Warwick Energy Limited, later, the project was taken over by Dong Energy. After the plans were completed in 2003, 2004, necessary for the construction contracts were handed over to a consortium of companies led by Vestas. In April 2005, the building was the construction of the substation started the installation of wind turbines took place after the establishment of the monopile from November 2005. Starting in March 2006, the plants were successively connected to the grid, the official opening of the wind farm took place on 25 September 2006.