Innogy : Triton Knoll heads into 2020 with start of offshore construction

• Foundations will be the first components to be installed at sea
• Commissioning of offshore wind farm expected to start in 2021

Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm (857 MW), located over 32 kilometres off the Lincolnshire coast, celebrates the new year with a major milestone as it aims to begin installation of the first components at the high sea.

Julian Garnsey, project director for Triton Knoll and innogy, said: 'We are looking forward to a busy year installing Triton Knoll's innovative foundations and offshore substation platforms, further demonstrating innogy's continued commitment towards ever more sustainable electricity generation for consumers.'

During 2020, the project team will aim to install 90 bespoke monopile foundations and transition pieces, along with two high-tech offshore substation platforms and their foundations, as well as over 600 kilometres of sub-sea export and array cables. The vessel fleet that will carry out the installation has already begun to mobilise and will look to install the first foundations as soon as the weather conditions are favourable.

In 2021, the focus of construction will shift to the installation and energisation of the powerful 9.5MW turbines, with Triton Knoll anticipating the first electricity to flow from the wind farm into the UK National Grid later that year. Once fully operational, Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm will be capable of supplying the equivalent of more than 800,000 UK households p.a. with renewable electricity.

innogy is a 59% owner of Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm along with J-Power (25%) and Kansai Electric Power (16%). innogy manages the construction and will manage the operation and maintenance works on behalf of the project partners.

For further information, you can find here the project press release:http://www.tritonknoll.co.uk/offshore-construction-starts/