Ørsted’s Swedish project could contain 27 MW of offshore wind turbines?
Ørsted’s Skåne Offshore Wind Farm project outside Sweden is planned to be built in 2026, subject to a permit process and final investment decision, and it looks like the developer expects to see wind turbines of more than 20 MW on the market. time.
Namely, a consultation document Ørsted, which was issued before an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the Scanian offshore wind farm in September shows that the 1,500 MW project can include as few as 55 wind turbines, depending on the nominal capacity of the units to be used, which in this case would be 27 MW.
The company is looking at installing a maximum of 125 turbines at the project site in the Baltic Sea, approximately 22 kilometers south of Skåne, if a 12 MW model is used. With 20 MW turbines, the number would drop to 75 units and a further 55 if each of the wind turbines has a capacity of 27 MW.
A 27 MW unit would have a rotor blade diameter of 320 meters and a maximum blade tip height of 385 meters.
At the 451-square-kilometer site, the turbines would be placed four to five times their rotor diameter apart, according to the developer, with exact locations within the site also depending on the seabed and other conditions.
The project can include up to four offshore transformer stations and the foundations planned to be used for the wind turbines and platforms can be monopile, jacket, suction bucket or gravity-based foundations.
The construction of the wind farm is planned to start in 2026 and the 1.5 GW Skåne project would be completed by 2029, depending on weather conditions.
In 2026, work will begin on the onshore power system, including the substation and the land-based section of the export cable, followed by offshore cable routing in 2027. The following year, offshore transformer stations would be installed and installation on foundations and cables between the arrays would begin, with wind turbines planned for installation in 2029.