Sotham Engineering are proud to have provided the complete M&E services to the new East Anglia One operations and maintenance facility in Lowestoft. This included;
Constructed on the water’s edge in the Hamilton dock area of Lowestoft, the new Operations and Maintenance facility, designed and built by NRS Group, will be a hive of activity for engineers and technicians, the base for marine operations, specialist offices and warehousing. It will also help to support the offshore phase of construction work on the windfarm, as well as the 30-plus years operational lifespan of the project.
East Anglia ONE consists of around 100 Siemens wind turbines and foundations, each rated at 7 megawatts. This gives an overall generating capacity of up to 714 megawatts. An offshore substation platform and its foundations are also being built to collect the electricity from the turbines and transform it to a form suitable for transfer to shore.
Two seabed export cables, each around 85 km in length, will transfer the electricity to shore. A landfall site with onshore transition pits is needed to connect the offshore and onshore cables. This is located at Bawdsey, Suffolk. Underground cables will be used to transfer the electricity. These have been laid from Bawdsey, under the River Deben and around Ipswich to a new onshore converter station at Burstall, near Bramford. The substation will connect the offshore windfarm to the National Grid.
| Project: | EA1 Operations and maintenance facility |
| Description: | M&E services, infrastructure and fit-out. |
| Consulting Engineer: | DSSR |
| Main Contractor: | NRS |
| Client: | Scottish Power |
| Complete: | August 2019 |
| Approximate Value: | £1.4m |
