US-based Fluor was hired as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor by Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Limited (GGOWL) – a 50:50 joint venture between SSE and RWE Innogy-owned npower renewables.
Last autumn GGOWL notified Fluor that 52 transition pieces and 35 monopiles – worth some 93MW of capacity – did not meet the “contracted standards”.
Fluor subsequently claimed £300m ($477.5m) in damages from GGOWL as compensation for delays and other cost impacts arising from testing and repairs at the project, arguing that the faulty kit was “attributable to the client and other third parties”.
