In July 2010 Pharos Offshore Group successfully entered into an agreement with CT Offshore Denmark (CTO), to provide the equipment, manpower, skills and expertise to bury the inter array cables supplying a maximum capacity of 300 Megawatts of electricity from the Thanet Offshore Windfarm. This has been sufficient to provide power for approximately 240,000 homes in East Kent for at least the next 40 years and will boost total UK offshore wind capacity by more than 30%. Pharos Offshore Group Ltd did not only supply the manpower, but also supplied CTO with a modified ST200 series trenching ROV fitted with a new jetting system (also designed by Pharos Offshore Group). This specialised equipment, being operated by our highly skilled and experienced Consultants, has enabled CTO to succeed where many others have failed. CT Offshore is based in Odense, Denmark, and provides consultancy, installation, seabed survey and a variety of ROV/trenching/shipping services to the offshore wind farm Industry.
The windfarm, currently described as ‘The largest operational offshore wind farm in the World.’ is owned by Vattenfall, the fifth largest energy producer in Europe who acquired the Thanet Offshore Windfarm project in November 2008. All 100 Vestas V90-3 Turbines, each up to 115 metres tall at its highest point, with a minimum clearance above sea level of 22 metres, have now been installed at the site approximately 12km off Foreness Point, the most eastern part of Kent, in water depths of 20-25m and covering a surface area of 35km². Vattenfall have already commenced work on a third Windfarm, 10km off Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria that is scheduled for completion in 2011. Their first site being Edinbane Windfarm on the Isle of Skye.
This exciting new venture is a great leap forward for Pharos Offshore Group as it moves into the renewable energy market. More projects will no doubt be in the pipeline for the future!
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