The business alliance formed by Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables will manufacture 21 monopiles for Iberdrola for the Windanker offshore wind farm.
Contract details and production
This is the second monopile contract for Iberdrola and the fourth contract of this type of foundation for the Navantia-Windar alliance to date. Production will take place at the monopile factory operated by Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables at the Navantia shipyard in Fene (A Coruña). The manufacturing of the 21 pieces will require 420,000 hours over 10 months, generating approximately 210 jobs among Navantia, Windar, and the collaborating auxiliary industry. Each of these substructures will have maximum dimensions of 84 meters in length, 10 meters in diameter, and 2,100 tons in weight.
Windanker wind farm capacity and leadership in the sector
Windanker, which will be located in German waters, will have a capacity of 315 MW once it is operational in 2026, incorporating new generation 15 MW turbines that will supply the German electricity market. With this new contract, Navantia Seanergies-Windar Renovables demonstrates leadership in this product line, adding a new contract to the previously awarded contracts worth over 1 billion euros, thereby consolidating a relationship of more than nine years with Iberdrola, with orders for Iberdrola’s offshore wind farms in the UK, Germany, France, and the United States.
Adaptations in the factory and statements from business leaders
This is the fourth order for the factory located in Fene. The operations at this factory have involved the adaptation of a facility to bend thick plates of up to 12 meters in diameter, new painting cabins, and storage areas for finished products, as well as state-of-the-art equipment necessary for manufacturing.
“This contract reaffirms the trust placed by Iberdrola in Navantia Seanergies and our partner Windar as suppliers of offshore wind components. A relationship that has lasted for nine years, in which Navantia has supplied foundations and offshore substations for Iberdrola’s parks in Germany, France, and the UK. Contracts like this help to boost work at the shipyard and the development of the offshore wind supply chain in our country, preparing it for a growing demand that has just begun,” said the president of Navantia, Ricardo Domínguez.
“Windar Renovables values this new order from Iberdrola as evidence of the high level of quality of our products and the reliability of our processes and our collaboration with Navantia Seanergies. It also confirms our forecasts that we expect a strong increase in activity in the sector, for which Windar Renovables is reinforcing its corporate structure and working to increase its capabilities to meet this challenge and continue earning the trust of such important clients,” said the CEO of Windar Renovables, Orlando Alonso.