1. Guangdong: vigorously develop green energy and actively build a world-class offshore wind power industry base

On August 3, Ma Xingrui, Governor of Guangdong Province, went to Yangjiang City to conduct research on accelerating the construction of offshore wind power projects and vigorously developing green and low-carbon energy. He emphasized the need to unswervingly accelerate the development and construction of offshore wind power and promote the continued health of the offshore wind power industry in our province. Stable development to ensure that the carbon peak and carbon neutral goal is achieved on schedule.

Ma Xingrui emphasized that it is necessary to accelerate the overall planning of the construction of two tens of millions of kilowatts of wind power industry bases in eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong, do a good job in related planning and connection, pay close attention to filling the shortcomings of the industrial chain, and create high-level strategic industrial clusters. It is necessary to continuously optimize the work system and mechanism to ensure that as many projects as possible are put into production and connected to the grid with full capacity, as soon as possible, research and promulgate policies and measures to support the investment and construction of offshore wind power projects, actively build a scientific communication and docking mechanism for the use of the sea, and create a good environment for the development of offshore wind power. Guangdong will become a pioneer and demonstration zone for national green and low-carbon development.

Source: Guangdong Provincial People's Government

2. Construction of the 2000-ton offshore wind power installation platform of the Three Gorges Group started

Recently, Huangpu Wenchong Company solemnly held the groundbreaking ceremony of the Three Gorges 2000-ton self-elevating self-propelled integrated offshore wind power installation platform (H6017).

According to reports, the 2000-ton wind power installation platform for the Three Gorges project started this time is a world-leading product, and the ship is named "Baihetan". The ship is about 126 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 10 meters deep. It has advanced design and powerful and flexible power; it has DP-2 dynamic positioning capability. It adopts full electric drive full-slewing propulsion, equipped with 4 sets of lifting systems, a 2000-ton full-slewing crane and a 200-ton auxiliary crane. The lifting height reaches 170 meters above the water surface and can be used for installation of offshore wind turbines of 10MW and above. It is the first self-propelled self-elevating wind power installation platform currently under construction in my country that meets the requirements of future, far-reaching, large-capacity, and integrated construction operations.

Source: CSSC Huangpu Wenchong

3. The first domestic 20MW offshore wind power installation ship crane was officially confirmed

Recently, Huisman Weimar officially announced the signing of a contract with Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd. ("Boqiang Heavy Industry") to deliver a 2,200-ton pile-wound crane for it. The crane will be installed on the first offshore wind power installation platform of the 3060 series and is expected to be delivered in the third quarter of next year (2022).

This time, Huisman China designed and built the first offshore wind power installation platform of the 3060 series with a pile-around crane with a lifting capacity of 2,200 tons and capable of installing a 20-megawatt wind turbine. The first 2200T installation platform of the 3060 series wind power installation platform project was independently designed and built by CIMC Raffles, equipped with a 2200T pile-around offshore crane and a rack-and-pinion lifting system; the leg length is 120 meters (can be extended to 136 meters) , To meet the 65-meter operating water depth, 2.5-meter significant wave height, and DP2 dynamic positioning requirements; the variable deck load meets the requirements for loading 4 sets of 12MW or 8 sets of 8MW wind turbines; the lifting and installation capacity meets the future 160-meter-class hub height, 20MW-class wind turbine installation requirements; the design standards meet the operating requirements in the waters of China, the North Sea of Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Source: Longchuanfeng Power Grid

4. Siemens Gamesa installs the first wind turbine in Asia in Taiwan

Siemens Gamesa assembled the first nacelle at the offshore wind turbine nacelle assembly plant in Taichung, Taiwan. This marks the first time that Siemens Gamesa's offshore wind turbine nacelle has been assembled outside Europe. The construction of the Siemens Gamesa Taichung Port Assembly Plant started in March 2020.

 Siemens Gamesa stated that the wind farm under development in Taiwan covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters and will support Ørsted's 900 MW Changhua Phase 1 and Phase 2 projects, which will use SG 8.0-167 DD wind turbines. The Greater Changhua Phase 1 and Phase 2 wind farms will include 111 SG 8.0-167 DD wind turbines, installed on the jacket foundation of the Taiwan Strait, about 35 to 50 kilometers from the coast of Changhua County.

Source: Siemens Gamesa

5. South Korea’s three major shipbuilding giants accelerate their entry into offshore wind power

Recently, the “10MW Korean offshore wind power floating model” jointly developed by South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, Korea Classification Society, and Korea Ship and Offshore Equipment Research Institute won the principle approval certificate issued by Korea Classification Society. At the same time, it was decided to continue cooperation in floating body design, certification of various engineering projects, and model test performance verification. This is an important measure of Hyundai Heavy Industries in actively responding to South Korea's vigorous development of offshore wind power.

As early as May of this year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in stated at the "Ulsan Floating Offshore Wind Power Strategy Report" that South Korea will invest 36 trillion won (about 207.4 billion yuan) to build the Ulsan Floating Offshore Wind Power Park. The ability to produce 6GW of floating wind turbines in 2030 will help South Korea become one of the world's top five offshore wind power countries.

Source: Dongfang Wind Power Network

6. SPIC Jiangsu Offshore Wind Power Company's monthly power generation exceeded the 200 million mark for the first time

As of the end of July, the Binhai North H1#100MW, H2#400MW, and Binhai South H3#300MW projects in operation by SPIC Jiangsu Offshore Wind Power Co., Ltd. reached 211 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in July, exceeding 200 million kilowatt-hours for the first time. , A record high.

Source: State Power Investment Corporation Jiangsu

7. Runbang Heavy Machinery's 600-ton full-slewing offshore crane was officially delivered

Recently, Runbang Heavy Machinery successfully delivered the GENMA 600-ton full-slewing offshore crane designed and built for Shenzhen United Ocean New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. The offshore crane is installed on the "Desheng 287 (now Tengdong 001)" wind power installation platform, and is mainly used for the installation of offshore wind power towers, blades and main engines. The GENMA 600-ton full-slewing offshore crane has stable performance, light weight, strong lifting capacity, flexible operation, and can still achieve slewing operations at full load. The product has a compact structure, and the ratio of the maximum lifting capacity to the dead weight is about 1:1, which improves the effective load of the ship to a certain extent. In the second half of this year, Runbang Heavy Machinery will also deliver 3500 tons, 2500 tons, 600 tons and other large GENMA offshore cranes to provide technical support and guarantee for domestic and foreign offshore engineering hoisting operations.

Source: Runbang Heavy Machinery

8. The piling construction of the Shengsi No. 2 offshore wind power project of the State Power Investment Corporation has been completed

On July 31, as the last hammer of the "Boqiang 58" piling ship group was slowly settled, the pile sinking construction of the single pile foundation of the 20# machine position in the B bid section of the Shengsi 2 offshore wind power project of the State Power Investment Zhejiang branch was completed. It also marks the completion of the pile sinking construction work of the project.

It is understood that the Zheneng Shengsi 2# offshore wind power project is located in the sea area of Wangpanyang, Shengsi, Zhoushan. The total planned installed capacity of the project is 400MW. It is planned to install 31 Mingyang 6.45MW and 32 Shanghai Electric 6.25MW offshore wind turbines, while supporting the construction of one. 220 kV sea booster station.

The wind turbine foundation of Shengsi No. 2 offshore wind power project is divided into two types: high pile cap and single pile foundation, with a total of 63 machine positions. The B bidding section will officially start the pile sinking operation on September 3, 2020. The successful completion of the pile-sinking construction operation indicates that the offshore wind power project has fully entered the wind turbine installation link.

Source: State Power Investment Corporation Zhejiang Branch

9. Offshoretronic launches ultra-long XXL monopile installation solution

Recently, Offshoretronic launched a ship design for the installation of the next generation of ultra-long XXL monopiles, which will support wind turbines up to 20 MW.

The solution is designed to handle single piles of more than 100 meters in length and 10 meters in diameter. It also uses a double crane installation vessel, VIBRO hammer and transport ship to combine the transportation and installation of multiple ultra-long XXL single piles. This installation solution not only saves time and cost, but also reduces risks such as pile buckling.

Source: offshorewind

10. East China Normal University releases high-precision global offshore wind power spatial database

Recently, doctoral student Zhang Ting (first author), associate researcher Tian Bo (corresponding author), post-doctoral researcher Dhritiraj Sengupta of the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Studies of East China Normal University, etc. publicly published the global 10-meter height in the scientific data magazine under Nature. Resolve the Global offshore wind turbine dataset. The research collected the remote sensing data of 70,000 Jing Sentinel 1 radar in coastal areas of the world from 2015 to 2020. Based on the remote sensing characteristics of the high backscatter radar of the offshore wind turbine structure, based on remote sensing cloud computing and big data analysis, a time-series radar satellite was developed. The remote sensing frequency detection and adaptive threshold intelligent recognition algorithm adopts strict data quality control to identify the temporal and spatial distribution and dynamic changes of global offshore wind turbines. The data spatial resolution accuracy reaches 10 meters, and the accuracy reaches 99%.

Source: Ocean Knowledge Circle