Vestas set for floating wind big-time as Shell and Hexicon eye flagship turbine for Korean giant

Vestas has won a preferred supplier deal to deliver 15MW turbines to the 1.3GW MunmuBaram floating wind project being developed off South Korea by a joint venture of oil & gas giant Shell and Swedish floating wind pioneer Hexicon.

The Danish OEM is slated to supply and install 84 of its V236-15.0 machines at water depths between 120 and 150 metres on floating foundations at the project area of about 240km² off the coast of Ulsan in the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula.