A jack up barge lowering a wind turbine tower piece into place on the Walney offshore wind farm.
The jack up barge, Kraken, loaded with wind turbines for the Walney Offshore windfarm project, off Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK, lifts a tower piece into place. When finished it will have 102, MW turbines, giving a total capacity of the Walney project of MW, enough to power 320,000 homes. The rotor diameter of the turbines is 107m for Walney 1 and 120 m for Walney 2. The wind farm is owned and constructed by Dong Energy.
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