The jack up barge,The Goliath moored next to a monopile at the Walney Offshore windfarm project,off Barrow in Furness,Cumbria,UK. The Goliath will then fit a transition piece over the monopile,upon which the wind turbine is constructed. When finished it will have 102,3.6 MW turbines,giving a total capacity of the Walney project of 367.2 MW,enough to power 320,000 homes. The rotor diameter of the turbines is 107m for Walney 1 and 120 m for Walney 2. The wind farm is owned and constructed by Dong Energy |