By 2018 there will be a new holder of the title 'heavyweight champion of the turbine world' in commercial operation. Vattenfall is about to start construction of the Horns Rev 3 wind farm off the West coast of Denmark from a total investment of a little over €1 billion. It will employ MHI Vestas V164-8.0 WTGs rated at 8.3 MW. If all goes to plan it will be commissioned in 2018.
In 2013 the Danish government sent out tenders for a new 400 MW wind farm at the existing Horns Rev 1 and 2 site, and a 600 MW array at Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea. The Horns Rev tender was won by Vattenfall which subsequently ordered 50 of the largest WTGs available, V164-8.0 machines with a rotor diameter of 164m and rated at 8 MW, from the technical collaboration partnership of MHI-Vestas. The order has since been modified to 49 machines and the V164-8.0 uprated to 8.3 MW.
The project, which is located in the North Sea 30 km off the west coast of Denmark, has come to the end of the pre-construction development and tendering stage. Vattenfall has tendered for a monopile construction and signed an installation contract with A2SEA, which installed the structures for Horns Reef 1 and 2 in 2002 and 2009. Later this year A2SEA will be employing its specialist vessel Sea Installer at Burbo Bank where its has been contracted by owner Dong to install the 256 MW Burbo Bank Extension. This consists of 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines. The project will start during September. The load out port will be Belfast.
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