Vattenfall has awarded the HARCO Heavy Lifting contract in Denmark, which will provide major component replacement services for five offshore wind farms in the UK from 2022 to 2025. The five offshore wind farms are Kentish Flats, Kentish Flats Extension, Thanet, Ormonde and Aberdeen Bay (European Offshore Deployment Center (EOWDC)). The wind farm has a total of 186 turbines with a total capacity of 686.3MW.

HARCO Heavy Lifting began to cooperate with Vattenfall's MCE team for the exchange of main components in 2020, and has been doing the exchange of gearboxes, generators and spindles at Vattenfall's wind farms in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Denmark. The Esbjerg-based company said that based on this cooperation, Huck won a major component exchange contract in the UK for the next three years. "Through this contract, we emphasize that we are focused on becoming the absolute leader in optimizing offshore MCE tasks. To ensure the best synergy between us and Vattenfall, HARCO is currently establishing a HARCO entity in the UK. This will take 4-6 months. Time to implement, but we believe this will enable us to support our customers better than we do now," said Henrik Harkes, CEO of HARCO Heavy Lifting. The scope of work is the replacement of gearboxes, generators, main shafts, and blades. In addition, Harker will provide hand tools, special tools and hydraulic tools for all parts replacement.

Our experience at HARCO has shown us their flexibility and efficiency, which can optimize our offshore business. This includes reducing overall costs by lowering jack-up rental rates and increasing turbine availability at the same time," said Karl Jørgensen, Vattenfall's MCE director. HARCO said negotiations began in early September 2021 and the final contract was signed in December 2021. Resource planning It has already started, and on-site work is expected to start at the end of January 2022. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering news

We have been cooperating with HARCO Heavy Lifting for major parts exchange. For about 2 years, we regard HARCO as a highly professional professional manpower supplier, said Claus Pedersen MCE from Vattenfall Wind Power's professional major parts exchange department. "The signing of this contract with HARCO ensures that Vattenfall will become a firm and highly qualified supplier of professional services. We look forward to valuable cooperation over the next three years." HARCO Heavy Lifting specializes in the handling, maintenance and installation of offshore wind turbines. The company started operations in January 2020.Editor/XingWentao