Denmark's Cowi to design foundations for Taiwan's first offshore wind farm

Danish consulting engineering group Cowi recently announced a contract to design the foundations for Taiwan's first offshore wind farm.

The Formosa I project, with a capacity of 130 MW, will be located off the west coast of Taiwan. It is scheduled to be completed in 2019 as the first of a series of offshore wind farms in the country, the company said.

Cowi is responsible for preparing the detailed design of the wind turbine foundations. It has already completed the detailed design of two of the 32 foundations, which will serve as prototypes for the remaining 30.

The firm said that the wind farm would be located in a seismically active region and that the risk of earthquake and typhoons placed extra demands on the durability of the foundations. It noted that its experience covered all three main foundation types -- monopiles, jackets and gravity foundations.

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