The Siemens Gamesa plant at Hull, northeast England, has sent the first blades produced at the facility off for installation at Dong Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm.

The blades will be taken by the Sea Installer vessel to be fitted to a portion of the Siemens Gamesa 6MW turbines at the 573MW Race Bank project off eastern England, where installations began earlier this year and which is due for completion in 2018.