Jan De Nul Group and the offshore wind project Nobelwind have signed the first offshore wind contract for Jan De Nul’s recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel Vidar.
It concerns the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 51 monopile foundations for fifty wind turbines and for the Offshore High Voltage Substation (OHVS), the supply and installation of scour protection and the installation of fifty wind turbine generators.
Nobelwind
The new Belgian offshore wind power plant Nobelwind will be installed 46 km off the coast at Zeebrugge, next to the Belwind wind power plant, around the Bligh Bank sand bank in the Belgian North Sea and has selected Ostend (Belgium) as Marshalling Harbour. It will consist of fifty Vestas wind turbines of 3.3 MW each, 165 MW in total. The power plant will be connected to the Belgian power grid through an export cable previously installed by Jan De Nul in 2013 and will provide green power to 197,000 families.
Simon Stevin and Vidar
Jan De Nul Group will execute the design, fabrication and installation of the fifty wind energy generators, including the foundation for the OHVS. The steel foundations are to be fabricated in Germany and Vietnam. The Vidar will install the 51 foundations working from the marshalling harbour in Ostend and the fall pipe vessel Simon Stevin will place scour protection on the sea bed around the piles. The Vidar will also be deployed to transport the turbines and blades from Denmark to install them onto the foundations.
The works will start in April 2016 and end in the course of 2017.
Specifications Nobelwind
- Area Nobelwindpark: 22 km²
- CO2-reduction per year: 197,000 t
- Turbine Model: 3.3 MW Offshore (Vestas)
- Total Turbine Height: 135 m
- Hub Height: 79 m
- Rotor Diameter: 112 m
Picture: Jan De Nul’s recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel Vidar (by Jan de Nul Group).
