Swire Blue Ocean’s jack-up installation vessel Pacific Orca recently arrived back in the outer harbour of the Port of Great Yarmouth, to be loaded with further turbine components for the Galloper offshore wind farm.

The vessel installed the first of the 56 Siemens SWT-6.0-154 turbines at the wind farm off the coast of Suffolk on 17 May.

Pre-assembly of the turbines is being conducted at the Port of Great Yarmouth’s North Terminal by local company 3sun Group. The final phase of cable-laying operations is also under way.

Galloper is located 30km off the coast of Suffolk. Innogy is leading the project on behalf of its partners: the UK Green Investment Bank, Siemens Financial Services, Sumitomo Corporation and Macquarie Capital.

The project represents an investment of around £1.5 billion and will have a generating capacity of some 336MW, sufficient to meet the needs of 300,000 households. Commercial power production is scheduled for 2018.