Recently, Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co.,LTD(hereinafter referred to as “CIMC SOE”) built for the French EOLINK S.A.S company(hereinafter referred to as “Eolink”) the first batch of 5MW offshore floating wind power project products were shipped successfully. This order is the first time for China to undertake overseas offshore floating wind power infrastructure projects, and the successful delivery of the first total section will lay a solid foundation for later construction.

It is reported that the offshore floating wind power infrastructure project is mainly shipped in three batches, the first batch of this shipment is the bottom of the prototype 8 total segments, including 4 floats and 4 corners, the average weight of each segment is more than 100 tons, including ballast system, propulsion system and so on. The 5MW floating offshore wind power structure prototype has a length of 52 meters, a width of 52 meters, a fan height of 94 meters, and a total weight of about 2000 tons, the entire project is expected to be the final commissioning for the wind site in 2024.

After completion, it will be commissioned in SEMREV, 20km east of Le Croisch, France(Loire-France). The floating offshore wind turbine(FOWT) has a design life of 10 years(from the end of production to 2 years of operation, 8 years of operation), and Eolink is responsible for the detailed design of its 5MW floating offshore wind turbine, since the project team was given a simple preliminary design at the beginning, it was the first time for the project team to face the wind power offshore engineering module, which was equivalent to a process of “staring form scratch”, and higher requirements were put forward for the design and procurement departments, such as the detail of the design scheme. In the process of production design, various majors in the design department discussed the scheme through a large number of emails and video conferences, then modeling is carried out to determine the final scheme; as well as the guarantee ability of the supply chain, it is necessary to overcome the cost pressure at the same time to meet the needs of rapid supporting response, and finally through the joint efforts of various departments, the first batch of total segments are successfully shipped within the specified nodes. Before delivery, the person in charge of Eolink came to the company to test the pre-closing, and all the date met the technical requirements, the French owner gave a high evaluation.

In recent years, offshore floating wind power technology gradually mature along with the global offshore wind power commercial development boom, offshore wind power has become the main direction of China’s wind power development in the future, and is expected to become an important part of China’s energy structure, far-reaching offshore projects have greater development potential in the future. CIMC SOE has entered the field of offshore wind power equipment for many years, delivering hundreds of sets of various types of offshore wind power equipment such as jacket, tower barrel, foundation pile and cage. In the future, we will continue to deepen the field of offshore energy, actively implement the national strategy of “carbon peak, carbon neutrality”, and unswervingly take the road of green, low-carbon and high-quality development.

The successful delivery of the first batch of total section marks a higher level of expertise for CIMC SOE as a pioneer in the field of floating wind power technology in China, which is of great significance for the later production design and sub-construction, and to accelerate the advance of domestic offshore wind power to the far-reaching. Looking forward to the future, CIMC SOE will seek common development with the participating parties, continue to work together to achieve win-win cooperation, create high-quality floating offshore wind power projects, promote the further optimization of the energy structure, and contribute to accelerating the development of the global offshore wind power industry.