{"id":51465,"date":"2026-03-30T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/51465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:50:09","slug":"foundation-installation-coming-up-at-hornsea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/51465\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Installation Coming Up at Hornsea 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The installation of wind turbine foundations at \u00d8rsted\u2019s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK is scheduled to start in April, with Cadeler\u2019s vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca, and the service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Froude set to mobilise for the work from Dutch and UK ports. <\/p>\n<p>Wind Ally will mobilise for the installation of XXL monopiles from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with the work planned to commence from 12 April. Wind Orca, which will be used for secondary structure installation works, will mobilise from the Port of Tyne in England and is expected to start operations at the project site on 19 April, according to a recent Notice to Mariners issued by the project.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation commissioning works will be supported by the SOV Esvagt Froude, mobilising from the Port of Hull in England, with work expected to commence on 24 April. <\/p>\n<p>During the installation of the Hornsea 3 wind turbine foundations, noise monitoring systems will be deployed by the contractor Seiche, utilising the vessel BB Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of six monopiles, of a total of 197 that Hornsea 3 will comprise, recently arrived at the Steel River Quay in the Teesside Freeport from Haizea Wind Group\u2019s facility in Bilbao, Spain. <\/p>\n<p>\u00d8rsted signed contracts for Hornsea 3 monopiles in 2022 with SeAH Wind and Haizea Wind Group. However, the developer and SeAH agreed to mutually terminate the contract because the company faced ongoing production challenges at its new Teesside facility, with \u00d8rsted subsequently reallocating SeAH\u2019s scope to other supplier(s). <\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of March, Dajin Heavy Industry announced that it had shipped the first Hornsea 3 monopiles from China to the UK onboard its new heavy-cargo deck carrier,\u00a0King One.<\/p>\n<p>Hornsea 3 is \u00d8rsted\u2019s third gigawatt-scale project in the North Sea\u2019s Hornsea zone. The offshore wind farm will feature 197 Siemens Gamesa\u2019s 14 MW turbines, installed approximately 160 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.9 GW Hornsea 3, which \u00d8rsted says is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshorewind.biz\/2022\/07\/07\/uk-secures-7-gw-of-new-offshore-wind-awards-cfd-to-worlds-single-biggest-owf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the largest single offshore wind farm<\/a>\u00a0in the world, is expected to be operational in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OW.biz-img-white-bckgrnd-1024x538.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reach the offshore wind industry in one go!<\/p>\n<p>offshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Increase your visibility with banners, tell your story with a branded article, and showcase your expertise with a full-page company profile in our offshore wind business directory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Follow offshoreWIND.biz on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The installation of wind turbine foundations at \u00d8rsted\u2019s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK is scheduled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[2607,18431,7611,383,18432,287],"class_list":["post-51465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-cadeler","tag-dajin-heavy-industry","tag-haizea-wind-group","tag-hornsea-3","tag-monopile-foundations","tag-orsted"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116317508569255840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}