Pen y Cymoedd Wind Energy Project ready for turbine deliveries

The sites are now ready to receive turbine deliveries following the completion of site access tracks.

Joint venture partners Jones Bros and Balfour Beatty have completed work to construct new and upgrade existing site tracks.

They delivered a balance of plant and infrastructure services on behalf of Vattenfall and have now completed more than 80km of site access tracks.

Eryl Roberts, project manager for the joint venture, said: “The completion of the site access tracks is a welcome milestone, as the project is dictated by their progress and completion.

“Quality tracks are needed to access each turbine base location, and we can now move plant to all 76 of the project’s turbine locations”.

Since starting the work on the access tracks in 2014, there have been upgrades to 50km of existing tracks with the construction of a further 30km.

A geotextile reinforcing layer is put on the top of existing ground and vegetation, followed by a layer of blasted rock, approximately a half to one and a half metres in depth. A further layer of processed rock, which is 150mm in depth is then added to provide a smooth surface for the turbines to be built on.

The tracks are constructed  to ensure they can withstand heavy plant and vehicles delivering the wind turbine components, with the junctions and bends increased in width for accessibility.

Alistair Hinton, Construction Manager for Vattenfall, said: “Siemens, the turbine supplier tested the tracks with a trial run in September which was successful.

“We are currently working to finish preparations ahead of the first delivery in mid-November”.

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