DONG Energy installing 8MW turbines in UK
From Power Engineering International
An offshore windfarm that is the first in the world to commercially deploy 8 MW turbines is now operational in the UK.
Dong Energy’s 258 MW Burbo Bank Extension, located 7 km off the UK’s west coast, features 32 MHI Vestas V164-8.0 MW turbines.
The turbines stand 195 metres tall, with 80-metre blades weighing 35 tonnes each and a swept area of 21,124 square metres. According to Dong, one rotation can power a home for 29 hours.
“Just one of these wind turbines produces more energy than the whole of Vindeby, the world’s first offshore windfarm constructed by Dong Energy 25 years ago in Denmark,” the company said. The 4.95 MW, 11-turbine Vindeby windfarm came online in 1991 and is now being decommissioned.
Burbo Bank Extension is a joint venture between Dong, which holds a 50 per cent stake in the project; investment fund PKA (25 per cent), and KIRKBI A/S, the parent company of the Lego Group (25 per cent).