Siemens has been awarded an order from Danish customer Semco Maritime to provide the main electrical equipment for the electrical service platform of the offshore wind project Mayflower Wind LLC (Mayflower Wind).

The project is located in a federal lease area approximately 25 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts and will have a capacity to generate up to 1.6 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy.

Under the contract, Siemens is responsible for the delivery of three 275 kV / 265 MVAr shunt reactors, a 72 kV HV gas insulated switchgear (GIS), three 275 kV MV GIS systems, integrated conditioning monitoring system and SCADA and protection systems. 

Siemens will supply the components for Semco Maritime by 2022. 

Source: Siemens