1,800 MW OFFSHORE WIND FROM SIEMENS TO UK

Siemens to supply 300 offshore wind turbines to DONG Energy; Projects in the United Kingdom to receive 300 of Siemens 6MW direct drive wind turbines

2012 July 19 (Siemens)

“Siemens and DONG Energy continue[d] their successful cooperation in offshore wind…[with an] agreement for the supply of a total of 300 wind turbines with a capacity of 1,800 megawatts (MW)…[The] new SWT-6.0-154 direct drive wind turbine…will be installed in wind power plants off the British coast between 2014 and 2017…

“DONG Energy already announced that it will install two of the new 6 MW wind turbines later this year for testing at Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. The 6 MW wind turbines are designed for large-scale projects, including the Round 3 projects in the UK. The target for 2020 in the UK is 18 gigawatts of offshore wind energy, which equates to around 18 percent of the UK's electricity demand.”

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“The energy production of Siemens' 6 MW wind turbine is sufficient to supply about 6,000 European households with electricity. The rotor has a diameter of 154 meters [has blades of 75 meters] and has a swept area of more than 18,600 square meters, which is equivalent to the area of approximately two-and-a-half soccer fields (FIFA norm)…[T SWT-6.0-154 was] designed specifically for offshore use…and [has] 50 percent less components including fewer rotating parts [assuring greater reliability and lower costly maintenance]…

“Siemens and DONG Energy…built the world's first offshore wind power plant…[in 1991] in Denmark…[There are now 13 [offshore] projects with 930 wind turbines…[T]he two companies are working on the Lincs, London Array and West of Duddon Sands offshore wind power plants in the United Kingdom, the Anholt project in Denmark, as well as the Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm in Germany. These projects alone have a capacity of approximately 2 gigawatts…”

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