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Kincardine Offshore Floating Wind Farm

Cable Route Development

The Project

Grupo Cobra’s Kincardine wind farm is one of the world’s first floating offshore wind farms and lies 15 km off the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland. Once complete it will generate 50 MW from 6 floating turbines of which one 2 MW turbine has been in operation since 2018.

OceanIQ’s® route engineers completed the final route design for the second 18 km export cable to be installed at the site, avoiding all potential UXO’s and providing a route to be ploughed by Global Marine Group’s PLP240 boulder – a pre-lay plough, working in boulder clearance mode.

Working with more dynamic products due to the inherent movement on a floating platform, installation techniques at floating sites differ to those at fixed foundation turbines. These variations were built into the route engineering solution delivered by the OceanIQ® team for the Kincardine project which was later completed by sister company Global Offshore.

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