Dong staging first offshore tests of Siemens 6MW model

Dong Energy will begin installation next month of two of Siemens’ direct-drive 6MW offshore turbines at a site adjacent to the existing 172MW Gunfleet Sands project, after receiving full consent from UK authorities.

It will be the first offshore test for Siemens’ 6MW machine, upon which the German group has pinned its hopes for the offshore market from 2014 – when it begins serial production at its new factory in Hull, England – until at least the end of the decade.

A prototype of the 6MW machine has been in place at an onshore test site in Høvsøre, Denmark, since June 2011.

A Dong spokesman confirms both of the new turbines will be installed on monopiles similar to the ones installed by MT Højgaard…

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