Turbine Installation Start

Installation of Seagreen’s Vestas V164-10 MW turbines began in December 2021, marking the formal start of the offshore wind farm’s turbine installation campaign. This phase followed the earlier installation of foundations, which had commenced in October 2021, and built directly on the project’s Final Investment Decision taken in June 2020 that had given the green light for construction activities to proceed. With turbines now ready to be installed on the previously placed foundations, Seagreen moved from core civil and marine works into assembling the generating assets that would ultimately provide the project’s power output. The turbines being installed comprise 114 Vestas V164-10 MW machines, marshalled and supported through logistics operations at the Port of Nigg in the Scottish Highlands, where Seagreen underpinned up to 141 skilled jobs for foundation marshalling and storage. The turbine installation start in December 2021 was therefore a key milestone in transforming Seagreen from a major construction project into a large-scale electricity-producing asset. This campaign paved the way towards first power in August 2022 and full operations in October 2023, enabling the wind farm—located about 27 km off the Angus coast—to reach its intended role as Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, capable of supplying enough green electricity to power more than 1.7 million homes with an installed capacity of 1.1 GW.