Technology provider for 640 MW offshore wind plant in Taiwan

Following its selection as a preferred supplier in May 2018, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has received the firm order by wpd offshore to supply the 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind power plant in Taiwan.

Located approximately six kilometers from shore in the Taiwan Strait, the plant will feature 80 SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines. This first firm order in Asia Pacific (APAC) for the SG 8.0-167 DD also includes a 15-year long-term service agreement. The project will also feature a 170 km of 66kV submarine cable to an offshore wind farm off the coast of Yunlin Xian, Taiwan.

Construction of the wind farm is expected to start in 2019, with turbine installation beginning in 2020. The farm will be installed in 2 phases, with the first one commencing operations in 2020 and the remaining capacity commissioned the following year.

The project will feature localized towers in 2021, via CS Wind and Chin Fong Machine Industrial’s partnership in Taichung harbor. It thereby satisfies official localization requirements on turbine components.

The SG 8.0-167 DD wind turbine has a rated capacity of 8.0 megawatts (MW), and a rotor with a 167-meter diameter. It has a swept area of 21,900 sq.m. and uses the SGRE B81 blade, which measures 81.4 meters. By 2020, more than 1,000 SGRE Direct Drive offshore wind turbines will be operating in three different continents globally.

The CEO of the Offshore Business Unit at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Andreas Nauen said - “We are extremely satisfied that the preferred supplier agreement we reached with wpd offshore one year ago has materialized into a firm order. It is furthermore encouraging to be able to introduce the SG 8.0-167 DD in APAC with an order of this volume. There is an increasing number of such sizeable opportunities in the region, and we are looking forward to contributing further to the growth of offshore wind in this part of the world.”