Taiwan project signs for 73 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines 

Siemens Gamesa (Zamudio, Spain) and Hai Long Offshore Wind (Taipei City, Taiwain) have signed two agreements, the Turbine Supply Agreement and Service and Availability Agreement, encompassing 1,044 megawatts (MW) for three offshore wind power projects in Taiwan. These are the Hai Long 2A (300 MW), Hai Long 2B (232 MW) and Hai Long 3 (512 MW) projects, making this Siemens Gamesa’s largest offshore wind power signing in Taiwan to date.

Seventy-three SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbines are intended to be deployed. A 15-year service contract is included in the signed agreement, with an option to extend it to 20 years. Among other items, Siemens Gamesa will provide offshore logistics and the operations and maintenance service facilities for all three projects. 

The SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbines are planned to be installed 50 kilometers off the coast of Changhua County. Each turbine will have a capacity of 14 MWs and feature a rotor diameter of 222 meters. It uses 108-meter-long Siemens Gamesa  fiberglass-reinforced epoxy IntegralBlades.

“The Siemens Gamesa –  Hai Long collaboration lights the way for more developments in the Taiwanese offshore wind industry,” Marc Becker, CEO of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore business, says. “We’re keen to deliver these projects and extend our position in leading the Taiwanese offshore revolution.”

Siemens Gamesa announced the expansion of its offshore nacelle assembly facility in Taichung on Sept. 21, 2022, meeting the localization requirements of some of Hai Long’s offshore wind projects. The factory expansion will more than triple the plot area up to approximately 90,000 square meters, as well as more than triple the number of Siemens Gamesa employees working in the facility. The expansion will also broaden the production scope with new production halls to be constructed on the extended plot. The extended factory is expected to begin operation in 2024. It released Taiwan’s first locally assembled offshore wind turbine nacelle in August 2021. 

“As the Hai Long Project approaches financial close and the start of the execution phase, the signature of the contracts with Siemens Gamesa mark an important milestone for us. The Turbine Supply Agreement is both the biggest construction contract that will ever be awarded for the Hai Long Project, as well as an enabler of the expansion of Siemens Gamesa’s nacelle factory,” Hai Long Offshore Wind’s project director Felipe Montero adds. “This plays a crucial role in our localization efforts, and shall become a cornerstone of Taiwan’s local offshore wind supply chain.”

The Hai Long consortium is a partnership between Canadian independent power producer Northland Power Inc. (Toronto) and Taiwan-based developer Yushan Energy Co. Ltd. (Taipei), jointly owned by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo,) Japan and Yushan Energy Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.