The mooring system for the floating wind turbine foundations is provided by Vryhof, which appointed Farinia Group for supplying the clump weights. Principle Power provided WindFloat™ semi-submersible foundation for the 2MW turbine of the wind farm, while a joint venture between Navantia and Windar was contracted to supply the remaining five floating turbine foundations for the project in February 2019. The electricity from the landfall facility will further be transmitted to the onshore substation at Redmoss.Ĭobra Wind, a subsidiary of ACS Group, is responsible for the engineering, design, supply, construction, and commissioning of the Kincardine floating wind farm.Ĭobra awarded the turbine supply contract for the project to MHI Vestas in 2018, while Bourbon Subsea Services was contracted for turbine installation. The export cable corridor comprising two 33kV 15km-long transmission lines will terminate at an onshore cable landing pit near the Aberdeenshire coastline in Scotland. The electricity generated by each turbine will be gathered and transmitted to a 1.5km-wide export cable corridor through 30km of 33kV inter-array cables. The floating foundations for the 9.5MW turbines are being provided by the Navantia-Windar joint venture. The 2MW turbine unit of the wind farm is mounted on WindFloat™ foundation provided by Principle Power. The foundations are moored in water depths of 60m-80m via four mooring lines each. The wind turbines for the Kincardine project are being installed on triangular-shaped semi-submersible foundations. The nacelle dimensions of the turbine are 9.3m x 20.7m x 8.8m, while the blade tip height of each 9.5MW turbine will be 190m. With a 164m-diameter rotor, each V164-9.5MW turbine will have a swept area of 21,124m². Kincardine will be the world’s first floating wind power project to use wind turbines of more than 9MW capacity. The V80-2.0 MW wind turbine, which is already in operation at the site, has a rated capacity of 2MW, while the remaining five under-construction V164-9.5MW turbines will have a rated capacity of 9.5MW each. Kincardine floating wind farm will feature a total of six offshore turbines including five V164-9.525 MW turbines and one V80-2.0 MW from MHI Vestas. Spread over 110km², the project site lies within the western half of the OWNE1 offshore wind development area of Scotland. The Kincardine floating wind farm is being developed in the Aberdeen Bay, approximately 15km off the south-east coast of Kincardineshire, at water depths ranging between 60m to 80m. Kincardine wind farm location and site details

KOWL received the final approval to construct and operate the floating offshore wind farm from the Scottish government, in March 2017. The Kincardine floating offshore wind farm is estimated to cost £350m ($445m) and will have an operational life of 25 years.

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