Navantia entered the offshore wind power market in 2013. Thanks to their modern, cutting-edge facilities and ideal weather conditions all year round, they are best-placed to build offshore wind power structures.
Navantia’s offer includes fixed WTG jacket structures, floating structures and offshore substations.
Navantia’s facilities – one in the northwest of Spain, Fene shipyard, and another in the south, Puerto Real shipyard – enable the company to carry out this activity in record time and their facilities are currently amongst the largest and best-equipped in Europe.
Navantia’s cranes have a capacity of up to 1,200 tonnes and are up to 85 metres high, and can lift weighty jacket structures and topside modules. Additionally, both shipyards boast vast storage space which combined can easily fit 100 structures.
In summer 2016, Navantia delivered to Iberdrola two 2,500-tonne topside modules for their 400 MW substation in Wikinger wind farm, with their six-legged 2,400-tonne jacket. The company, together with renewable energy company Windar, also built and delivered 29 jacket-type structures to the same wind farm, meeting strict deadlines.
As the project was completed successfully, at the end of 2016 Iberdrola asked Navantia to build another substation and 42 jacket substations (also in consortium with Windar) for Scottish Power’s East Anglia One wind farm. Navantia will start to build the structures in the second quarter of 2017.
In early 2017 another important jacket structure contract was signed with Siemens, to build four units for the Nissum Bredning wind farm in Denmark.
And lastly, it is worth highlighting the contract with Statoil to build five SPAR floating structures for Hywind, in Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. It is the world’s first commercial pre-series contract for floating offshore wind structures, which means that Navantia has become a leading offshore wind power builder for mid and deep waters.
Floating offshore wind power is the only way to harness this energy in deep waters, and in a decade it will be the only viable option when all the mid-water locations have been used.
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