- Fabrication of three Offshore Transformer Modules for the Moray East Offshore Windfarm project now completed
- Final OTM to sail away from the fabrication yard this weekend
- All three OTMs delivered to the customer with zero snags
The third and final Siemens Energy Offshore Transformer Module® (OTM®) is ready to leave the fabrication yard this weekend to sail to the Moray East offshore windfarm project, located 22km from the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland, marking a significant milestone in the project’s development.
An OTM is the substation platform out at sea and in a world’s first, three of these will be connected with the capacity to deliver 950MW clean energy from the Moray East project.
The OTMs, which were fabricated and fitted out in Hoboken, Belgium by Smulders, ENGIE Solutions and Siemens Energy, are an essential part of the wind farm. They stabilise and maximise the voltage of the power received from the offshore wind turbines before transmitting the electricity to shore.
The OTMs will sit on three-legged jackets and each weigh-in at around 1,100 tonnes. Each module will transmit the power generated by the 100 turbines across the 295km2 site, back to shore and into the national grid where it will be distributed to homes and businesses.
