Hornsea Zone News

MENCK, a brand in marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon, has secured a contract to supply advanced pile-driving equipment and operational services for the installation of the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm.Acteon will supply its MENCK MHU4400S hydraulic hammer, along with a pile sleeve and anvil designed for monopiles of up to 11 meters in diameter.The MHU4400S submersible is a high-performance submersible hammer engineered to drive both large monopiles and smaller-diameter piles, meeting the demands of today’s large-scale offshore wind installations.Located in the U.K.

The first turbine of the 1,218-MW Hornsea 1 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, the world’s biggest such facility, has been installed and is now generating power.Matthew Wright, UK managing director of Danish energy group Ørsted A/S, described the installation of the first turbine as "a globally significant milestone".Ørsted co-owns the project with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) after selling a 50% stake to the latter in November 2018. Ørsted began offshore construction just over a year ago, and expects the project to be completed by Q1 2020.The project is located 120km off the Yorkshire Coast and will consist of 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines.

Denmark's DONG Energy has become the lead developer of Britain's Hornsea Zone offshore wind scheme after it bought the project rights to the second and third phases of the development Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Financial Services. The Hornsea Zone, off the coast of northeast England, is being developed in phases to ultimately provide 4 gigawatts (GW) of renewable wind energy and has the potential to meet 40 percent of Britain's electricity demand. DONG acquired the first phase of the development, known as Hornsea Project One, earlier this year, which will have a capacity of 1.2 GW.