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Scottish supply chain continues to support construction of NnG. A 100 ton spare export cable for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm has arrived at the Port of Rosyth where it will be stored for a minimum five years on a purpose-built cable carousel.

The first of two export cables, each 37 kilometres in length, has been installed at the nearshore of Thorntonloch Beach as part of construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm.

Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Limited has appointed two Scottish businesses to construct its Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at Eyemouth Harbour. Muir Construction, based in Inverkeithing, Fife, has been appointed to design and build NnG’s three storey, 1,040 square metre main O&M building and its two storey, 538 square metre storage warehouse. Inland and Coastal, of Lossiemouth, Moray, will design, …

Construction of the onshore works to support the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm took a purposefully slow step forward this weekend with the delivery of a massive “shunt reactor” to the site of the wind farm’s connection to the National Grid in the Lammermuir Hills. A second shunt reactor is due for delivery next weekend. The 160-tonne shunt …

Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Limited (jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB), its tier one service provider, Saipem, and InfraStrata, owner of Harland & Wolff, jointly announce that a contract has been signed for Harland & Wolff to carry out the fabrication and load-out of eight of the project’s wind turbine generator (WTG) foundation jackets.

A ‘pipe push’ to install 650 metres of plastic ducting underneath Thorntonloch Beach, in East Lothian, as part of construction work for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Farm, is now complete. This was the final stage of the Horizontal Directional Drill (HDD) exercise in preparation of the electricity transmission cable for NnG, jointly owned by EDF Renewables and …

Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) Offshore Wind Limited and Eyemouth Harbour Trust (EHT) have signed a lease which sees Eyemouth Harbour confirmed as the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) base for the project’s 25-year lifespan.