Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables will manufacture 21 monopiles for Iberdrola for the Windanker offshore wind farm. This is the second monopiles contract for Iberdrola and the fourth contract of this type of foundations for the Navantia-Windar alliance to date. Production will take place at the monopile factory operated by Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables at the Navantia shipyard in Fene (A Coruña, Spain).
The manufacture of the 21 parts will involve 420,000 hours over 10 months, generating around 210 jobs between Navantia, Windar and collaborating auxiliary industry. Each of these substructures will have a maximum length of 84 metres, a diameter of 10 metres and a weight of 2,100 tonnes.
Windanker, which will be located in German waters, will have a capacity of 315 MW once it is commissioned in 2026, incorporating new generation 15 MW turbines that will supply the German electricity market.
With this new contract, Navantia Seanergies-Windar Renovables demonstrates its leadership in this product line, and adds a new contract to those already awarded for more than €1 billion, consolidating a relationship of more than nine years with Iberdrola, with orders for Iberdrola’s offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States.
This is the fourth order for the factory located in Fene, a facility in which Navantia and Windar have invested 36 million euros. The work at this factory has involved the adaptation of a building for bending thick sheet metal up to 12 metres in diameter, new paint booths and storage areas for finished products, as well as the latest technology equipment required for manufacturing.
‘This contract reaffirms Iberdrola’s confidence in Navantia Seanergies and our partner Windar as a supplier of offshore wind components. A relationship that has been going on for nine years now, in which Navantia has supplied foundations and offshore substations for Iberdrola’s wind farms in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Contracts such as this one help to boost work at the shipyard and the development of the offshore wind supply chain in our country, preparing it for a growing demand that has only just begun,’ said Navantia’s chairman, Ricardo Domínguez.
For the CEO of Windar Renovables, Orlando Alonso, ‘Windar Renovables values this new order from Iberdrola as evidence of the high level of quality of our products and the reliability of our processes and our collaboration with Navantia Seanergies. It also confirms the forecasts that we expect a strong increase in activity in the sector, for which Windar Renovables is reinforcing its corporate structure and is working to increase its capabilities to respond to this challenge and continue to deserve the trust of such important customers’.
Source: Navantia Seanergies
