Waves Group Delivers on Beatrice, Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Last week Waves Group’s Marine Warranty Surveyors oversaw the completion of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, Beatrice. The last of 84 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines was installed on Tuesday May 14th.

Located 13km off the coast of Caithness in the Moray Firth, the Beatrice offshore wind farm is expected to power over 450,000 homes in Scotland. Beatrice is the fourth largest wind farm in the world and has the deepest water depths to have used fixed foundations for any wind farm to date. The jacket foundations, weighing roughly 1000 tonnes each, were installed in water depths of over 56m.

Waves Group has supplied Marine Warranty Surveyor services for the duration of the project and are pleased to see the project come to a successful completion under budget and ahead of schedule, after 3 years of construction.

The offshore wind farm is a joint venture between SSE Renewables, holding 40% share, Copenhagen Partners, 35%, and Red Rock Power Limited, 25%. SSE will manage the operations and maintenance of the wind farm from their new base in Wick.

We are pleased to see the successful delivery and operation of the Beatrice wind farm (already generating power to homes in Scotland) which will contribute significantly to the Government’s green initiative. The successful delivery of such a large-scale project underscores our Marine Warranty Surveying capabilities within the renewables sector.

We are also working on several large projects such as Triton Knoll and Formosa, and Hornsea One, the world’s largest offshore wind farm.