Port of Dundee

[AE-NMidlands]

My recollections of Dundee are meeting my childhood hero (Desperate Dan), along with others , including the ducks outside the church.

The statuary in Dundee is fun and well done. We’d visited to see the new V&A - externally superb, internally/content disappointing.
Big mistake - wearing my usual attire of shorts and T. Works well in Somerset; March in Dundee with a keen wind coming off the Tay estuary.

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Fully agree about the V&A, for me the stand-out thing to see was the Frigate Unicorn. https://www.frigateunicorn.org/ Unfortunately the website doesn't give you any impression of how good it is!
I'd done the polar ship before, and was really glad I searched until I found the "Wooden Walls (of England?)" Apparently almost unaltered since it/she was built 200 yrs ago.
Here's the V&A - and the weather:

[AGT]

Don’t forget about the other ship a few minutes walk away

https://www.rrsdiscovery.co.uk/explorat ... /the-ship/

[AE-NMidlands]

Don’t forget about the other ship a few minutes walk away
https://www.rrsdiscovery.co.uk/explorat ... /the-ship/

Less than that, you just need to turn through 90 degrees! I've done that before, though - it's very interesting but expensive!

[AGT]

They aren’t next to each other any more… they are a few minutes walk allowing for crossing some traffic lights

[AGT]

The discovery is just to the left of the V&A, Unicorn to the right

[Andy]

Quite a lot of wind turbine components sitting in the port of Dundee, I don't know which windfarm they are for.

likely for the Moray field.

Port of Dundee is the marshalling and pre-assembly yard for EDF's 459 MW (54 x 8 MW turbines) Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm, 15.5km east of Fife Ness in the outer Firth of Forth. Has had quite a difficult development process - it was originally awarded a CfD in AR1.

https://nngoffshorewind.com/

Port of Nigg in the Cromarty Firth is currently supporting the SSE's AR3 1,075 MW (114 x 10 MW) Seagreen 1 project which is about 27km east of Arbroath. Its grid connection is to Tealing in Angus. A further 36 turbines are consented but are being developed as the separate Seagreen 1A project with a grid connection to Port Cockenzie in East Lothian.

https://www.seagreenwindenergy.com/

Nigg previously supported the construction of Ocean Wind's AR2 950 MW (100 x 9.5 MW) Moray East wind farm, which was completed last year. It sits 22km off the Caithness coast in the outer Moray Firth and is connected to Blackhillock substation in Moray.

https://www.morayeast.com/

The largest operating substation in the UK, Blackhillock is also the connection point for the neighbouring Beatrice offshore wind farm and a 300 MW / 600 MWh BESS project By Zenobe.

https://www.beatricewind.com/

https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/ ... ckhillock/

Ocean Wind, an JV between EDPR annd Engie, also plan to use Nigg again for their 882 MW (60 x 14.7 MW) Moray West project, next door to Moray East. This project only reached financial close in April following the award of a CfD in AR4 last year and has only just begun onshore construction. It'll connect to the new Whitehillock substation in Moray. It's a particularly interesting project to watch as only a third of the capacity is secured against a CfD, with 50% instead linked to a Commercial Power Purchase Agreement and the remaining 20% to be sold on a merchant basis.

https://www.moraywest.com/

https://community.ionanalytics.com/how- ... e-paid-off

Ocean Winds have a third Moray project in development named Caledonia Wind Farm, which at 2 GW will supply more power than Moray East and Moray West combined.

https://www.caledoniaoffshorewind.com/

It's amazing how much money is going into these projects. Saipam 7000,3000 and multiple other vessels involved. Looking online I see costs of 125k per day for the 7000. Its been out there for many months now.

[Joeboy]

likely for the Moray field.

Port of Dundee is the marshalling and pre-assembly yard for EDF's 459 MW (54 x 8 MW turbines) Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm, 15.5km east of Fife Ness in the outer Firth of Forth. Has had quite a difficult development process - it was originally awarded a CfD in AR1.

https://nngoffshorewind.com/

Port of Nigg in the Cromarty Firth is currently supporting the SSE's AR3 1,075 MW (114 x 10 MW) Seagreen 1 project which is about 27km east of Arbroath. Its grid connection is to Tealing in Angus. A further 36 turbines are consented but are being developed as the separate Seagreen 1A project with a grid connection to Port Cockenzie in East Lothian.

https://www.seagreenwindenergy.com/

Nigg previously supported the construction of Ocean Wind's AR2 950 MW (100 x 9.5 MW) Moray East wind farm, which was completed last year. It sits 22km off the Caithness coast in the outer Moray Firth and is connected to Blackhillock substation in Moray.

https://www.morayeast.com/

The largest operating substation in the UK, Blackhillock is also the connection point for the neighbouring Beatrice offshore wind farm and a 300 MW / 600 MWh BESS project By Zenobe.

https://www.beatricewind.com/

https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/ ... ckhillock/

Ocean Wind, an JV between EDPR annd Engie, also plan to use Nigg again for their 882 MW (60 x 14.7 MW) Moray West project, next door to Moray East. This project only reached financial close in April following the award of a CfD in AR4 last year and has only just begun onshore construction. It'll connect to the new Whitehillock substation in Moray. It's a particularly interesting project to watch as only a third of the capacity is secured against a CfD, with 50% instead linked to a Commercial Power Purchase Agreement and the remaining 20% to be sold on a merchant basis.

https://www.moraywest.com/

https://community.ionanalytics.com/how- ... e-paid-off

Ocean Winds have a third Moray project in development named Caledonia Wind Farm, which at 2 GW will supply more power than Moray East and Moray West combined.

https://www.caledoniaoffshorewind.com/

It's amazing how much money is going into these projects. Saipam 7000,3000 and multiple other vessels involved. Looking online I see costs of 125k per day for the 7000. Its been out there for many months now.

The 7000 used to go out at 500,000 euro per day on field development contracts. I'm glad it's doing this work now. I worked alongside it back in the day when we we were decommissioning Frigg in Norway. An eerie sight to see it silently lift a bridge joining two topsides free, up up and away!

I wouldn't go on it myself as its in company nick name was the 'deathstar' and it sadly lived up to that name. Happier days now! The conversation went like this.

Joe, we'd like you to go to the 7k on Friday.?

Nope, ain't going.

Why?

People get killed there every year, and you don't have the power to stop that happening. it ain't fucken gonna be me.

Oh OK...Another ship then?

Cheers and off I bally well went!

[AE-NMidlands]

They aren’t next to each other any more… they are a few minutes walk allowing for crossing some traffic lights

I was meaning that the Discovery was just a 90 degree turn from the view I showed. Yes, I would say the Unicorn is a good 5 mins walk.
The thing that stuck in my mind from the Discovery was that they had holds packed solid with coal briquettes, as they were denser than coal and had been formed into bricks which could be stacked with no wasted space whatsoever (presumably nil or less risk of spontaneous combustion either, as there was almost no air in the stack.)