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Belgium : JAN DE NUL gets EPCI contract for 165MW offshore wind power plant in BELGIUM
Publish Date : 30-Sep-2015
Jan De Nul has won an engineering procurement construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Nobelwind for a 165MW offshore wind power plant in Belgium. The contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 51 monopile foundations for 50 Vestas wind turbines of 3.3MW each and for the offshore high voltage substation.
Additionally, Jan De Nul will be supplying and installing scour protection, along with the installation of 50 wind turbine generators. The newly acquired jack-up heavy lift vessel of Jan De Nul, Vidar, will be responsible for the installation work which is scheduled to commence in April 2016 and end in 2017.
Jan De Nul Group offshore wind manager Peter De Pooter said, "Jan De Nul Group will execute the design, fabrication and installation of the 50 wind energy generators, inclusive foundation for the OHVS.
"The steel foundations will be fabricated in Germany and Vietnam under strict quality control by our specialist inspectors. The newly acquired Vidar will install the 51 foundations working from the marshalling harbour in Ostend and the fall pipe vessel Simon Stevin will place scour protection on the sea bed around the piles.
"Finally the Vidar will transport the turbines and blades from Denmark to install them up to 100 m high onto the foundations."
The wind farm to be located off the coast of Zeebrugge, will be connected to the Belgian power grid through an export cable previously installed by Jan De Nul in 2013. The clean electricity generated at the facility will be sufficient to power nearly to 197,000 homes.
