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14 hot news about offshore wind power (2021.09.04-09.10)

2021/09/10 Source:ChinaOffshoreWind

1. 3 million kilowatts offshore! New progress has been made in Guangxi's first offshore wind power demonstration project!

Recently, with the joint efforts of Guangtou Offshore Wind Power Co., Ltd. and the implementing unit, all field work such as engineering survey, engineering geophysical prospecting, and rock and soil drilling for the planned 3 million kilowatt offshore wind power site in Guangxi offshore has been completed. The preliminary survey work involved The total area of the sea is 401.6km², with a total of 86 boreholes. At the same time, the first draft of the feasibility study report for offshore 3 million kilowatts of offshore wind power has been completed. The preparation of special reports such as the pre-examination of land use has laid a solid foundation.

In the next step, Guangtou Offshore Wind Power Co., Ltd. will continue to fulfill its mission as the only offshore wind power platform company in the district, and steadily accelerate the advancement of the preliminary work in the approval phase of 3 million kilowatts of offshore wind power, and meet the approval requirements for the completion of demonstration projects at the end of December this year, and strive to be the first in 2022. The first wind turbine in the third quarter will be hoisted, and the first demonstration project in Guangxi will be connected to the grid in 2023, achieving a "zero" breakthrough in offshore wind power in Guangxi.

Source: Guangtou Offshore Wind Power Company


2. China Power Construction Vietnam's offshore wind farm has achieved a major node!

Recently, the Vietnam Cha Rong No. 2 offshore wind power project successfully completed all the wind turbine hoisting tasks, becoming the first overseas offshore wind power project of China Power Construction to complete the hoisting. At the same time, it also became the first offshore wind power project in Vietnam that completed hoisting this year. This is the first successful application of wind turbine equipment made in China and the monopile foundation designed by China Power Construction in overseas offshore wind power.

It is understood that the total installed capacity of Vietnam's Charong No. 2 offshore wind power project is 54MW, with a "one" layout. 12 Goldwind 4.5MW wind turbines will be installed. The hub height is 100m and the impeller diameter is 155m. It adopts a single pile foundation type without transition section.

Source: China Power Construction


3. Strategic cooperation between the central and local four parties, the official layout of the offshore wind power green hydrogen industry chain

On September 6, Rudong County People’s Government, National Energy Group Guohua Energy Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guohua Investment"), National Energy Group Beijing Low-Carbon and Clean Energy Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as "Low Carbon Institute"), Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongtian Technology") held a signing ceremony for a four-party strategic cooperation agreement on the hydrogen energy industry chain in Rudong County Administrative Center.

As the country’s largest offshore wind power demonstration county, Rudong County is located in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta, and has abundant sea areas, tidal flats and other spatial resources, as well as basic advantages in port petrochemical, energy, chemical, and modern logistics. Hydrogen energy and other industries have good development conditions and application scenarios, and are actively building green energy demonstration cities. Relying on the unique advantages of Rudong County, Guohua Investment and Low Carbon Institute actively conducted multiple rounds of consultations with Rudong County and Zhongtian Technology, and finally reached the signing of this agreement.

According to the agreement, all parties will give full play to their comprehensive advantages in industry, resources, technology, policies, etc., and jointly build a "renewable hydrogen energy supply chain base" and a "hydrogen key equipment base" to promote Rudong's establishment of a green energy demonstration Cities, and jointly build a hydrogen energy industry ecology.

Source: Zhongtian Technology Group


4. Goldwind completed the hoisting of the southernmost offshore wind farm in China

Recently, my country’s southernmost offshore wind power project-Guangdong Zhanjiang Xuwen Offshore Wind Power Project (hereinafter referred to as "Xuwen Project") successfully completed the hoisting of all 47 units. The project will take 5 months from the first hoisting to complete completion on March 29, 2021. The project uses Goldwind GW171-6.45MW offshore units. This model adopts direct drive permanent magnet technology. It is one of the representative models of Goldwind’s 6S product platform. It is grid-friendly, stable in operation, efficient in installation, and intelligent in management. Etc.

The project is located in Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, with a distance of 30 kilometers from the center of the site. The water depth is between 5 and 26 meters, and the project environment is relatively complex, easily affected by tropical cyclones and typhoons, with heavy wind and waves, short sea windows, and difficult construction.

In order to ensure the efficient development of the project, Goldwind relies on its rich project experience to implement a "one-stop" service for the overall Xuwen project. With the close cooperation of various parties, the project finally successfully completed the hoisting work of all units.

Source: Goldwind Micro Platform


5. The first unit of the offshore project with the largest installed capacity in China has been hoisted

Recently, the first 10MW wind turbine unit of Dongfang Wind Power's Fujian Changle Offshore Offshore Wind Farm Project Area C has been successfully hoisted, marking that Dongfang Wind Power’s independently developed offshore wind turbine unit with the largest single-unit capacity in Asia has officially entered the open sea.

The total installed capacity of the Changle Offshore Wind Farm C zone project is 200MW, which is currently the largest offshore project in China with the largest installed capacity. The project is located 30-40 kilometers away from the coastline of Changle. 20 Dongfang Wind Power 10MW offshore wind turbines are installed. The sea level is about 120 meters, the water depth of the construction sea area exceeds 40 meters, the sea conditions are poor, and the swells are large, and the lifting operation is difficult to construct.

The successful completion of the hoisting of the first unit indicates that the single-blade hoisting process of Dongfang Wind Power can fully meet the requirements of the hoisting operation of complex sea conditions in the offshore waters, and provides an excellent solution for the hoisting of wind turbines for offshore projects.

Source: Dongfang Wind Power Technology


6. China Haizhuang's first batch of 6.2MW offshore wind farm completed the hoisting of all units

On September 9, China State Shipbuilding Corporation Haizhuang Wind Power Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Haizhuang")'s first batch of 6.2MW wind farm, Huadian Fujian Haitan Strait Project, completed the hoisting of 24 wind turbines.

The planned total installed capacity of the project is 300MW, of which 148.8MW are 24 6.2MW units of China Haizhuang. As China Haizhuang’s first batch of 6.2MW wind farms, China Haizhuang also completed the first 6.2MW offshore wind power plants in this wind farm. The demonstration application of the localization of the main control system of the unit. The demonstration unit was successfully connected to the grid and put into operation on May 9 this year. Realize the localization of the main control system of wind turbines.

Source: China Haizhuang


7. Break the sweeping area per kilowatt! SANY Heavy Energy launched two ultra-low wind speed models!

Recently, SANY Heavy Energy launched SI-175335 and SI-183365 two new generation ultra-low wind speed models with great cost and performance advantages for ultra-low wind speed areas. The diameters of the wind wheels of the two models are 175m and 183m respectively, and the rated capacities are 3350kW and 3650kW respectively. The sweeping area per kilowatt can reach 7.18m²/kW and 7.21m²/kW respectively. While increasing the generating capacity of the unit, it not only can Effectively reduce the number of seats, and also minimize the difficulty of on-site transportation and installation.

At present, both models have obtained design certification and will be tested on-hook in the near future.

Source: Sany Heavy Energy


8. The static test of the world's longest carbon-glass mixed pultruded blade passed one time!

Recently, Mingyang Smart MySE11-99A1 carbon-glass hybrid pultruded blade completed a full-scale static test at one time. Become the world’s first 100-meter-class carbon-glass hybrid pultruded wind turbine blade that has completed the static test. Mass production capacity.

MySE11-99A1 carbon-glass hybrid pultruded blade is the first 11MW ultra-large offshore blade in China developed, designed and produced by Mingyang Intelligent. It was once ranked as the world's first in Asia in 2020 by the authoritative wind power industry magazine Windpower Monthly. Good leaves.

Source: Mingyang Intelligent


9. CNPC's drilling platform enters the offshore wind power market for the first time!

In late August, the offshore engineering company CNPC 3 platform successfully completed the installation of the No. 57 wind turbine of the H8 wind farm in Dafeng, Jiangsu. This is PetroChina's first drilling platform offshore wind power support business.

The CNPC Ocean 3 platform is the first bottom-mounted platform built by the Ocean Engineering Company, which is suitable for shallow water areas within 10 meters of water depth. On June 4, the CNPC Ocean 3 platform completed the adaptive reconstruction and delivered it for use in just 40 days. On August 1, the platform was towed to the scheduled sea area and successfully completed the first bottoming operation. On August 19, the platform was successfully moved to the first fan well and ballast was completed, and a one-year offshore wind power installation support service was officially launched.

Source: Offshore Wind Asia


10. GCL Rudong Offshore Wind Power's full-line hoisting wind turbines

On September 1, the No. 27 single pile of GCL Rudong H13# offshore wind power project successfully completed the pile sinking operation. So far, CCCC Sanhang GCL Rudong Project Department has successfully completed the construction of all 30 large-diameter single piles of the project. The task is to enter the hoisting construction of wind turbines throughout the county, and it is planned to achieve full-capacity grid-connected power generation before the end of October this year.

The GCL Rudong H13# offshore wind power project is 30 kilometers offshore. It is one of the two wind farms of the GCL Rudong offshore wind power project. It has a planned installed capacity of 150,000 kilowatts and 30 sets of 5MW sea-mounted wind turbines are installed. Build a 220KV sea booster station and a land-based centralized control center. This project is also one of the sub-projects of the provincial major project-Rudong Offshore Wind Power Project.

Source: Jianghai Evening News


11. Hewang assisted Zhoushan Shengsi offshore wind farm project with full capacity successfully connected to the grid

Recently, the Zhoushan Shengsi offshore wind farm project successfully achieved full-capacity grid-connected operation. Zhejiang China Guangdong Nuclear Power Shengsi Offshore Wind Farm Project is located in the sea area of Shengsi County, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. The station is about 20 kilometers away from the port. The project uses 45 units of Shanghai Electric, a single unit of 6.25MW, all of which use Hewang offshore wind power converters. At the same time, it is equipped with HopeView network monitoring system, which is of great development significance to promote the adjustment of energy structure in Shengsi County.

Source: Hewang Electric


12. 400MW! This year's first offshore wind power project unit (including tower) has started bidding!

On September 8, China Resources Power issued the "Cangnan 1# Offshore Wind Power Project Wind Turbine (Including Tower) Goods and Services Bidding Announcement". in:

Bidding content and scope: purchase wind turbine (including tower) equipment and related services with a total capacity of not less than 400MW (more than 400MW). According to the project information provided by the tenderer, within the range of available machine locations, the bidder shall recommend the micro-site selection machine location and bidding model plan that meets the calculation of the safe load according to the principle of "selecting a single pile foundation to the greatest extent"; Jacket foundation should be used for machine positions with single pile foundation. The stand-alone capacity of the bidder shall not be less than 5MW.

Delivery time / construction period: The total supply capacity for the whole year of 2022 is not less than 300MW, March 20~September 31, 2022: The supply in March is not less than 20MW, and the remaining monthly supply capacity is not less than 50MW . The remaining capacity will be supplied in the first half of 2023. (The specific delivery period is subject to the written notice of the tenderer)

Source: China Resources Group Bidding Platform


13. Siemens Gomesa launched the world's first recyclable blade

On September 7, Siemens Gomesa announced the launch of recyclable wind turbine blades. This is the world's first wind turbine blade that can be recycled at the end of its life cycle. The first batch of six 81-meter-long recyclable blades have been produced at the company's blade plant in Aalborg, Denmark.

Siemens Gomesa is working with RWE to install the world's first offshore wind turbine with recyclable blades at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm in Germany. In cooperation with EDF and wpd, several sets of recyclable blades will be deployed in future offshore wind farms.

At the same time, the company recently announced the 2040 Sustainable Development Goal, and plans to achieve complete recyclability of wind turbines by 2040.

Source: Longchuanfeng Power Grid


14. Shell Petroleum joins hands with CoensHexicon to enter the Korean offshore wind power market

Multinational energy company Shell Oil and offshore wind power project development and floating body technology company CoensHexicon jointly announced on September 1 that it will establish a joint venture legal person "Wenwu Zhifeng" SPC for the development of Ulsan floating offshore wind power projects and formally join Ulsan. Development of floating offshore wind power bases.

The target of this project is to develop a sea power project with a total installed capacity of 1400MW in the sea area about 65km from Ulsan, an industrial city in southeastern South Korea, with a water depth of 120 to 150 meters, and will provide power to more than 1 million users. It is planned to complete a one-year wind survey and apply for a power generation project license within this month, and conduct a seabed geological survey for the first time among floating offshore wind power companies in Korea.

Source: East Asia Energy Industry Observation