Located alongside the Danish group's 172MW Gunfleet Sands 1 and 2 developments off southeast England, Gunfleet Sands 3 is designed to test Siemens’ highest-capacity SWT-6.0-120 machine – the German group's first turbine fully-designed for hostile marine environments.
The machines are expected to start generating electricity this spring.
“The Gunfleet Sands demonstration project is a big step in reducing the cost of energy in offshore wind,” says Dong UK country manager Benj Sykes.
“Turbines
