The joint alliance of Windar Renovables and Navantia Seanergies has finished building 45 monopiles that will be installed at East Anglia Three, an offshore wind farm Iberdrola is developing in the UK North Sea.
The 45 foundations are being supplied to ScottishPower Renewables, the UK business of Iberdrola, under a contract signed at the start of 2023. The agreement covers monopiles for the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm, which has a capacity of 1.4 GW.
All manufacturing was carried out at the monopile plant jointly run by the two companies at the Navantia shipyard in Fene (A Coruña). Each unit is up to 84 m long, has a weight of 1,800 t and measures 10.6 m across.
According to Javier Herrador, Director of Navantia Seanergies, the cooperation with Iberdrola supports the deployment of clean energy while promoting industrial development, job creation and wealth generation in a sector regarded as strategic for Europe.
Within the partnership between the two companies, this contract marks their second monopile delivery for Iberdrola and their third joint project using this foundation type.
Navantia Seanergies had earlier built a substation and, together with Windar, supplied 42 jacket foundations for the East Anglia One project.
The wind farm where these monopiles will be installed is scheduled to come into operation in 2026 and will provide 1,400 MW of capacity, serving 1.3 million homes with clean power.
This latest project joins earlier contracts that Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables have carried out for Iberdrola in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as part of a strategic cooperation with order volumes of over EUR 1 billion during the last ten years.
Part of the East Anglia Three fabrication was carried out in parallel with the Windanker offshore wind farm, another Iberdrola project already installed in the Baltic Sea, where the two companies produced 21 monopiles.
