filed: January 12, 2024 • Scotland
World’s first floating wind farm Hywind Scotland faces shutdown for ‘heavy maintenance’
Credit: 12 January 2024 | By Gareth Chetwynd | rechargenews.com ~~
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Norwegian energy giant Equinor will temporarily remove all five floating wind turbines from the pioneering Hywind Scotland array later this year after discovering a need for “heavy maintenance” on the Siemens Gamesa machines deployed there, Recharge has learned.
The 6MW turbines will be towed back to Wergeland on the west coast of Norway as part of a maintenance programme that is likely to take around four months and will disrupt power output from the project operating 24km off Peterhead since 2017. All units will be reconnected back on the Hywind Scotland site when the maintenance is complete, a spokesman for the Norwegian company confirmed.
The work will involve changing some components on the turbines, as well as more routine maintenance. “What we see from operational data is that there is a need for… heavy maintenance on the turbines,” he told Recharge.
Hywind Scotland is fully operational at present but tow-in operations will begin later in the year, taking advantage of the more benign weather periods in late spring and summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/01/12/worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-hywind-scotland-faces-shutdown-for-heavy-maintenance/
