South Korea's SK oceanplant has signed a contract with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to supply offshore wind turbine jacket base for the 500MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan Province, China, with a total contract value of US $285.5 million (equivalent to about 2.069 billion yuan).

Located about 35 km off the coast of Taichung, central Taiwan Province, the Fengmiao Offshore Wind Power Project has a total installed capacity of 1,800MW and is planned to be equipped with a minimum of 90 and a maximum of 187 offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 9MW to 20MW.

CIP was awarded the development rights for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind project in the first round of the third offshore wind auction in Taiwan Province in December 2022, and the project was developed by Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP). Fengmiao 1 project with a total installed capacity of 500MW, intends to install offshore wind turbines with a single capacity of 15MW, is planned to start construction in 2025, is expected to be put into commercial operation in 2027.

SK ecoplant, the parent company of SK oceanplant, said the Fengmiao 1 project is the second collaboration between the two companies, following the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind projects and the Zhongneng Offshore Wind project.

SK oceanplant is currently building a new offshore wind structure production facility in Goseong, Gangwon Province. Scheduled for completion by the end of 2026, the new production site will cover an area of 1.57 million square meters and will have the capacity to produce jacket bases, floating bases and offshore substations.

With the addition of the new production facility, SK oceanplant will have 2.5 million square meters of production area and will be the largest offshore wind substructure production site in the world. Currently, the existing plant has an annual jacket capacity of approximately 50 units, and once the new production site is operational, SK oceanplant will have the capacity to produce approximately 40 units of 4,500-ton floating substructures per year.

CIP entered the Taiwan offshore wind power market in 2017, and the Fengmiao 1 project is its third project in Taiwan Province. In April 2018, CIP acquired approximately 900MW of construction capacity, including 595MW of Changfang and West Island offshore wind projects and 298MW of Medium energy offshore wind projects. Among them, the Changfang and West Island projects, consisting of 62 Vestas V174-9.5MW wind turbines, have been recently completed; The project intends to install 31 Vestas 174-9.6MW wind turbines, and the hoisting of wind turbines has started. Editor/Xu Shengpeng