Siemens Gamesa Archives - theenergyst.com https://theenergyst.com/tag/siemens-gamesa/ Wed, 29 May 2024 13:15:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://theenergyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-TE-gravatar-2-32x32.png Siemens Gamesa Archives - theenergyst.com https://theenergyst.com/tag/siemens-gamesa/ 32 32 Iberdrola commissions 493MW St-Brieuc as France’s second off-shore wind farm https://theenergyst.com/493mw-st-brieuc-commissioned-as-frances-second-off-shore-farm/ https://theenergyst.com/493mw-st-brieuc-commissioned-as-frances-second-off-shore-farm/#respond Wed, 29 May 2024 13:13:36 +0000 https://theenergyst.com/?p=21669 Britanny, France’s province abutting the Atlantic & the English Channel, has this week seen initial power flows from the region’s first offshore wind farm, equipped with the most powerful turbines erected in the nation. Spanish-owned Iberdrola, Europe’s third biggest power company as ranked by company value, has commissioned the 496 MW park off Saint-Brieuc, facing […]

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Britanny, France’s province abutting the Atlantic & the English Channel, has this week seen initial power flows from the region’s first offshore wind farm, equipped with the most powerful turbines erected in the nation.

Spanish-owned Iberdrola, Europe’s third biggest power company as ranked by company value, has commissioned the 496 MW park off Saint-Brieuc, facing Jersey.

The first of the farm’s 62 marine turbines were erected in 2021. Saint-Brieuc will produce 1,820GWh each year, around 9% of all electricity consumed across the entire province.

Only the 714MW East Anglia One park in the North Sea is more powerful of Iberdrola’s three other farm already generating in European waters. The company’s 1.4 GW East Anglia Three project is under construction, as is its 476MW Baltic Eagle venture off Germany.

Iberdrola is also building the USA’s first big marine turbine cluster, the 806 MW Vineyard Wind farm off Massachusetts.

Saint-Brieuc will outperform Ibedrola’s 389MW Duddon Sands park in the Irish Sea and the 350MW Wikinger farm in the Baltic.

Its 62 turbines, each rated at 8MW, is now feeding into the French grid, managed by RTE. The nuclear power of state-controlled EdF continues to dominate France’s electricity market, accounting for up to 78%.

Iberdrola provided all the €2.4 billion which Saint-Brieuc cost to build. Its development began in April 2012.

Construction of the wind farm has mobilised more than 1700 jobs in France, nearly a third of them in Brittany. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy built Saint-Brieuc’s turbines at its new industrial site in Le Havre.

Navantia Windar assembled the jacket foundations. Electrical contractors Haizea Breizh, also on the Brest polder, assembled the masts’ electrical equipment.

“We are particularly proud to announce the full commissioning of Saint-Brieuc, twelve years after we were named the bid’s winner, “said Emmanuel Rollin, Iberdrola’s director for France.

“The challenge for us, as a European leader in renewables, was to create the foundations of a sustainable industrial sector for French offshore wind power. We have worked hard to involve local companies in this project by supporting them in this fast-growing segment ,” said his colleague Stéphane-Alain Riou, director of offshore wind energy

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“Generational change”, as much as losses, spins turbine boss out of the door https://theenergyst.com/generational-change-as-much-as-losses-spins-turbine-boss-out-of-the-door/ https://theenergyst.com/generational-change-as-much-as-losses-spins-turbine-boss-out-of-the-door/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 14:23:08 +0000 https://theenergyst.com/?p=21562 Jochen Eickholt, pictured, head of turbine maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa, is to quit both his post and the company this summer, the victim of restructuring operations at the manufacturer. The company’s shares rose 13% on today’s news, including on hints of generational jump in senior management and a re-jig of the firm’s commercial strategy. Eickholt will […]

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Jochen Eickholt, pictured, head of turbine maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa, is to quit both his post and the company this summer, the victim of restructuring operations at the manufacturer. The company’s shares rose 13% on today’s news, including on hints of generational jump in senior management and a re-jig of the firm’s commercial strategy.

Eickholt will step down on 31 July and leave the company on 30 September, the parent company Siemens Energy announced this morning. He was appointed the turbine maker’s head only in April 2022, with a brief to reverse cost over-runs and to repair fractured supply chains.

Replacing the 62 year old will be Vinod Philip, 50, head of global functions at Siemens Energy. Philip currently oversees a palette of functions including IT, purchasing, innovation, logistics and project management.

Today’s announcement by the parent makes no mention of Tim Dawidowsky, appointed as Siemens-Gamesa’s chief operating officer in 2022, within two months of Eickholt’s arrival.

Under the pair’s tenure, Siemens Gamesa has continued to struggle with quality issues and sustained financial losses.  Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch today absolved Eickholt from blame for the former, declaring that “the causes of the quality problems did not fall under his tenure”.

Bruch said that Eickholt’s departure was part of the company’s multi-year restructuring plan as “the time has now come for a generational change at Siemens Gamesa”.

Continuing losses at the turbines division dictates the sharpening of strategy identified in today’s overhaul. While continuing to make larger maritime structures, it will now target developers and generators operating onshore farms in stable regulatory environments, chiefly in Europe and the US. Break-even by 2026 is the financial goal, to be followed by profit margins topping 10% at an unspecified date.

Although its plan meentions unspecified job cuts, the parent Siemens Energy reaffirmed its commitment to both maritime and onshore turbines, allaying concerns of potential divestment or closure of wind business segments.

The parent confirmed that coastal factories making maritime – and thus bigger – turbines in Cuxhaven, Aalborg and Le Havre will continue to ramp up their capacities, a move the parent sees as essential.

Continuing disruptions to production and resulting flaws led to financial setbacks for Siemens Gamesa in 2023, including a loss of €4.6bn (£3.94bn). At the time, Bruch said: “The strong performance of our other business areas gives me confidence in our company’s ability to put businesses back on a strong footing.”

Siemens Energy’s shares surged 13% on today’s announcement.  At group level, it declared expectations of better profit margins, and adjusting its 2024 projections for sales to rise as much 12% during the year.

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Siemens Gamesa steels itself for low-carbon towers off Danish coast https://theenergyst.com/siemens-gamesa-steels-itself-for-low-carbon-towers-off-danish-coast/ https://theenergyst.com/siemens-gamesa-steels-itself-for-low-carbon-towers-off-danish-coast/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:27:19 +0000 https://theenergyst.com/?p=19324 Engineering multinational Siemens Gamesa says its next generation of turbine towers will be built from steel with a 63% lower carbon footprint than before.  At 120 metres and taller, the manufacturer says the giant structures’ strength, longevity and other in-service characteristics will be unaffected. RWE’s 1GW Thor farm now under construction off the coast of […]

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Engineering multinational Siemens Gamesa says its next generation of turbine towers will be built from steel with a 63% lower carbon footprint than before.  At 120 metres and taller, the manufacturer says the giant structures’ strength, longevity and other in-service characteristics will be unaffected.

RWE’s 1GW Thor farm now under construction off the coast of Denmark will next year host 36 of the combine’s new Greener Tower structures, based on its existing SG 14-236 DD design.

Until now the steel used in tower construction has accounted around a third of a turbine’s lifetime carbon emissions.   But new production methods employed by the multinational’s suppliers have cut associated emissions to 0.7 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per tonne for steel.

Salzgitter Steel, the fabricator’s chosen supplier, says it has achieved the cuts through a combination of recycling scrap, employing an electric arc itself fired with renewable offshore wind power, and other advanced processes.

Around 80% of a turbine tower consists of steel. They dwarf a turbine’s blades in terms of construction volume, with latest site-specific hub heights accommodating blade diameters of up to 236 metres.

“Wind power is one of the cornerstones of the green energy transition”, said Maximilian Schnippering, head of sustainability at Siemens Gamesa. “With more than 600 GW of new capacity to be installed worldwide in the next five years, it is important for the wind industry to reduce its carbon footprint”,.

“Our project to address emissions with greener steel is one solution”, he went on. “With the launch of the GreenerTower, Siemens Gamesa leads the efforts to further push wind circularity and net-zero emissions”.

Siemens Gamesa says it has installed 130 GW of turbines worldwide.

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Recyclable blades in RWE’s “world’s first” installation off England’s North East https://theenergyst.com/recyclable-blades-in-rwes-worlds-first-installation-off-englands-north-east/ https://theenergyst.com/recyclable-blades-in-rwes-worlds-first-installation-off-englands-north-east/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:18:51 +0000 https://theenergyst.com/?p=19092 Turbine blades capable of being broken down into their component chemistries are targeted for a world’s first deployment in Britain’s coastal waters. Mega-utility RWE has sign an agreement with turbine makers Siemens Gamesa to include the manufacturer’s recyclable blades on 44 turbines of the 100 intended for its Sofia offshore farm in the North Sea. […]

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Turbine blades capable of being broken down into their component chemistries are targeted for a world’s first deployment in Britain’s coastal waters.

Mega-utility RWE has sign an agreement with turbine makers Siemens Gamesa to include the manufacturer’s recyclable blades on 44 turbines of the 100 intended for its Sofia offshore farm in the North Sea.

The 1.4 GW project, set to cover thousands of acres of Dogger Bank off Teeside began construction last year, at a projected cost of £ 3billion.   A total of 132 recyclable blades will be fitted before construction ends in 2026. This is the maximum available in the light of current market capacity for the key resin used in the new design.

Conventional blade production using composite materials has long provoked outcry from critics of wind power, consigning end-of-life structures to landfill, at heavy environmental and financial cost.

Towers and the nascelles which house their gearing hubs already have established recycling practices. But the composites making up blades have been more challenging, due to the specific resin type previously required to bind their elements.

Siemens Gamesa’s new resin formulation has a chemical structure that favours efficient separation. The manufacturing process protects the materials’ properties, permitting them to be reused in new casting applications, including in car making or in consumer goods like suitcases.

Siemens Gamesa claims world leadership in recyclable blade manufacture after trialling the technology in German projects, including its Kaskasi park off the island of Heligoland.

The turbine maker says production of half Sofia’s blade requirement will be produced at its factory in Hull, consolidating its commissioning from a growing supply chain in Britain.

RWE installed Britain’s first offshore turbines off Blyth, Northumberland in 2000.

Clark MacFarlane, UK managing director, Siemens Gamesa: “When we began working with RWE on installing our recyclable blades on their Kaskasi project, we knew that we had taken the first major steps on delivering a major change to the renewable wind sector.

“Having the opportunity to produce even more for Sofia is fantastic and fully demonstrates our and RWE’s focus on developing and delivering even greater levels of sustainability for renewable generation globally.”

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