Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm

Each of the five V164 9.5 MW turbines incorporates three 80 m blades, fabricated at the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight. The blades were painted and finished at the Fawley facility, a former oil-fired power that that has been repurposed.

The fabrication of the five WindFloat® units started in April 2019 at Navantia’s facilities in Spain and leveraged a supply chain that brought together components from the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The close interaction between Principle Power and Vestas, built on the WindFloat Atlantic project, was instrumental for the project’s fast delivery, with platform-turbine integration happening at Rotterdam port in November 2020.

Despite the challenges presented by the global pandemic, when yards shutdown and operated at a reduced capacity for several months, the project achieved an installed capacity of 50 MW by the fall of 2021.

During the course of these operations, the project has completed first-of-a-kind operations for wind turbine major component exchanges, including both tow-to-port, and in-situ options. These successful experiences validate the flexibility of the WindFloat® technologies and provide invaluable lessons that we are using to inform future technology and method improvements.

We are also using the real-world operational data to feed our O&M simulation tools, which we apply to help clients develop O&M strategies for large commercial projects globally, providing insight on how to maximize uptime and minimize costs.