Siemens delivers 1st onshore transformer for 857 MW Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm in Lincolnshire

Siemens delivered the first transformer to the onshore substation site of Triton Knoll Offshore Windfarm.

The transformers set sail from Austria, where they were manufactured, to Sutton Bridge port in Lincolnshire.

Triton Knoll has two transformers. Each one is 13 meters long and four meters wide. Once the other associated electrical equipment has been added, it will double in size to 26 meters long and 6.6 meters wide.

The wind farm, 32km off the Lincolnshire coast, will have an installed generation capacity of circa 857 MW once fully operational. It will be capable of providing enough clean and sustainable power for the equivalent of at least 800,000 UK homes.

There are around 150 people on site at Bicker Fen. The substation construction work includes the construction of the main access road, the substation platform, piling works and access to the existing National Grid substation, which are already completed. Civil works started earlier this year and are well developed. Construction of the onshore substation is due to be completed in 2020.

Triton Knoll is owned by innogy, J-Power and Kansai Electric Power Co.