Wind Energy – CAPE Vibro Lifting
CAPE Holland, a renowned innovator in offshore industry foundation installation equipment, has secured a contract from Van Oord to provide a CAPE VLT-640 Quad spread.
This innovative CAPE Vibro Lifting Technology will be instrumental in contributing to the ambitious ecological goals that allowed Ecowende to win the tender for the wind farm permit.
As one of the many innovations on the project, the CAPE Vibro Lifting Technology will be used to considerably reduce piling noise compared to traditional hammer installations. The monopiles, with a diameter up to 9.3 meters and weighing nearly 1,500 tons, will be driven with the CAPE VLT to final penetration where possible or finished using an impact hammer. Van Oord’s new installation vessel Boreas will be using its 3,000 ton crane to install the monopiles.
Dick van Wijngaarden, Business Development Manager at CAPE Holland, expressed enthusiasm, stating: “I am delighted that after a long period of promoting the Vibro Lifting Technology to the industry, we have been selected for this first large scale implementation of this innovative technique at a Dutch offshore wind farm to use the Vibro Lifting Tool to help reduce the environmental impact during the installation phase.”
Jan Willem Elleswijk, Project Director at Van Oord: “We are pleased to announce this agreement with CAPE Holland and are excited to apply this innovative technique for the first time on such a large scale in the construction of a Dutch offshore wind farm. We look forward to working together on the realization of the Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm.”
Ecowende – a joint venture between Shell, Eneco, and Chubu – will take a huge step by building the most ecological wind farm to date. By doing so, Ecowende wants to help make a positive contribution to biodiversity and thus accelerate the large-scale roll-out of offshore wind in the Netherlands and beyond.
