Spanish companies to build XXL monopiles for Scottish OWF

Developer Ocean Winds has awarded the partnership of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables a contract to manufacture 14 monopiles for the Moray West Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland. This is the first order for their new XXL monopile factory which is currently being build at the Fene Shipyard in north western Spain. The global execution period is ten months, generating 280,000 hours of work, with an average of 150 direct jobs per month, Windar Renovables said.

The 882 MW Moray West will feature 60 Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW wind turbines installed on monopile foundations some 14 miles off the coast of Caithness.

The XXL monopiles will have a length of 90 metres, a diameter of between eight and ten metres, and a maximum weight of 2,000 tons. With this contract, this business alliance enters a market segment in which it aspires to play a relevant role, although Windar Renovables is already established as a manufacturer of transition pieces for this type of monopile.

Windar Renovables Executive President, Orlando Alonso, said: ”We are committed to a long-term product in the coming years and to developing the local industrial fabric in the Ría de Ferrol, capitalizing on the enormous expected demand for offshore wind power products, which will multiply by three in just five years.”

”This first contract for XXL monopiles is a success due to the diversification of our catalog of offshore wind power products. ”We are committed to a long-term product in the coming years and to developing the local industrial fabric in the Ría de Ferrol, capitalizing on the enormous expected demand for offshore wind power products, which will multiply by three in just five years” said the president of Navantia, Ricardo Dominguez.