fter months of attention on Inch Cape’s bright yellow foundations around Edinburgh, the project’s focus is shifting to Dundee as the major Scottish offshore wind farm moves into its turbine installation phase.

Before installation at sea, Forth Ports’ Port of Dundee will stage the components for 72 wind turbine generators, each comprising a four-section tower, three 115.5-metre blades and a nacelle housing the electrical systems. Inch Cape will be the first UK scheme to use Vestas V236-15MW turbines, the largest to be installed so far.

The first components arrived in early August aboard the heavy transport vessel Bravewind, with further consignments due almost every week until late September on six different ships including Boldwind, Tony Stark and Vestvind.

More than 130 personnel will operate from the 170,000 square metre yard to receive components, carry out marshalling, assembly and commissioning, and manage load-out and sail-away from the port.

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In total, 576 components will be offloaded: 288 tower sections, 216 blades stacked in sets of three, and 72 nacelles. Deliveries will see tower sections arrive first, followed by nacelles and then blades.

The towers will be assembled quayside, with the tallest reaching 127.4 metres—almost three times the height of Dundee’s tallest building, Dudhope Court—and the same as Scotland’s highest freestanding building, Glasgow Tower.

Cadeler’s new-build turbine installation vessel Wind Mover will install the turbines, transporting them to the offshore site in batches of four starting in November.

Inch Cape took the keys to the Port of Dundee in summer and has completed enabling works, setting up temporary offices and facilities for teams from turbine supplier Vestas and local contractors who will transform the port into a busy pre-installation yard for the next 12 months.

Given the port’s prominence, activity in Dundee is expected to draw local interest, offering a clear view of Scotland’s energy transition in action.

Elsewhere on the project, work is underway in Invergordon at the Port of Cromarty Firth to mobilise the Alfa Lift, which will install 54 pin piles using a specially designed pile installation frame (pre-piling template) before also installing the project’s 18 jacket foundations. At the offshore site, burial of the second export cable by CMOS Installer is well progressed and Altera’s inter-array cable installation campaign has begun.