Reap the wild wind

New port infrastructure essential for the production, marshalling, integration and deployment of floating offshore wind turbine units will be carried out for full operation in 2030, the port says.

The facility will have the capacity to handle the assembly or manufacture of sub-structure bases, along with the integration of towers, blades and nacelles.

Completed floating structures will then be deployed from the port to deep-water sites in the Celtic Sea.

The work has materialised after the UK’s Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5, which focused on expanding specifically floating wind projects.

The new deep-water terminal will include a new quay wall, slipway for launching floating sub-structures and extended breakwater.

Activities at the port will also include wet storage, a station keeping system with anchors and mooring lines and inter array cables.

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