Ormonde Wind Farm

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Ormonde is operated by Vattenfall offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea with an installed capacity of 150 MW.

General

It is located 10 km west of Barrow-in- Furness in a water depth of 17 to 30 meters and covers an area of 8.7 km ². Locally, the average wind speed is 80 meters, height 9 m / s The projected annual electricity output is 500 GWh, which 100,000 households can be supplied according to the company. Thus, the capacity factor is about 38%. Installs are 30 wind turbines of the REpower 5M with a rated power of 5 MW, a hub height of 90 meters and a rotor diameter of 126 meters. As a founder of the turbines that were manufactured at the REpower plant in Bremerhaven and loaded in Belfast on the jack-up barge Sea Jack, jacket foundations were used. Is fed into the public power grid of electricity generated in the transformer substation in Heysham, with which also rests on a foundation Jacket transformer platform of the wind farm is connected via a 42 km long submarine cables around. In the same substation and the adjacent offshore wind farm Barrow and Phase 1 of similarly situated near offshore wind farm Walney dine -in.

History

Originally, the wind farm of Eclipse Energy as a hybrid power plant has been planned consisting of the wind farm and a 90 MW payable gas power plant. Following the purchase of Eclipse Energy by Vattenfall the project was planned as a pure offshore wind farm. In early 2007, the building permit was done, started the construction in 2008, initially only onshore work was carried out. After the order for delivery of wind turbines was awarded to REpower in July 2009, the offshore work began in May 2010. After the installation of the foundations of the wind turbines were built from March to August 2011. End of April 2011, the submarine was put into operation, the current production began in the summer of 2011. Definitively completed and the wind farm was put into operation in February 2012.