The Sofia Offshore Wind Farm on Dogger Bank is set to become a major renewable energy source. Upon completion, it will power around 1.2 million UK homes. Thanks to LAUTEC’s public Sofia demo, you can now follow the project’s vessel movements and milestone completions as they happen.
Track Sofia Installation Progress and Vessel Movements in Real-Time
Check the construction progress of the Sofia Wind Farm’s 100 turbines with our interactive Sofia demo. With visualizations of installation milestone progress updated daily and vessel locations refreshed every 2 minutes, tracking the Sofia Wind Farm’s development is easier than ever.
Our SaaS Platform tracks major construction milestones, including:
- Rock Installation – Laying scour protection to stabilize the seabed.
- Monopile Installation – Installing the wind turbine foundations, driving the hollow steel piles into the seabed.
- Secondary Steel Installation – Adding steel structures to the monopiles, including ladders, boatlandings [that Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) can push against when transferring technicians], and work platforms.
- Inter-array Cable Pull-in – Includes pulling the electrical cables into the monopiles and up into the base of the WTG to connect the strings of turbines to the offshore transformer platform, laying of the cables on the seabed, and burial of the cables into the seabed.
Click on the progress displays in the map for milestone information. Here, existing DPR system users can also access the detailed Daily Progress Reports (DPRs) where the milestones are recorded.
Through the demo, you can see exactly when these milestones happen, tracking:
- Van Oord’s fallpipe vessels Bravenes and Nordnes as they installed the scour protection.
- Van Oord’s Aeolus as it installs the monopiles and the secondary steel.
- Van Oord’s new cable-laying vessel Calypso as it pulls-in and lays inter-array cables.
- The Van Oord chartered Eidesvik Subsea Viking as it buries the inter-array
- Cadeler’s Wind Peak as it transports and installs the wind turbines.
- All other vessels operating on Dogger Bank.
For an even more in-depth experience, you can explore past vessel movements with our timelapse replay functionality.
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Based on the Latest Industry Data
The Sofia demo is continuously updated with data from:
- Sea Impact’s market intelligence feed
- LAUTEC’s Daily Progress Reporting (DPR) and WindGIS SaaS Platform modules
- MarineTraffic AIS feed.
Our flexible platform also supports Spire, VesselFinder, and other data feeds to provide insights tailored to your project needs.
Experience the Full Potential of the SaaS Platform
This is just one example of how the LAUTEC SaaS Platform improves offshore wind project overview capabilities.
Tailored specifically to offshore development and construction, the platform makes daily work easier for everyone involved.
By integrating Daily Progress Reporting, an Analytics Dashboard, and a Web GIS Viewer, project teams can collaborate easily on a single platform. The purpose-built system ensures that wind power projects run smoothly, keeping all data organized and accessible.
Schedule a personalized demo with our experts to learn how much more we can do for your project when working beyond the limitations of public data.
About the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Project
Located 195 km off the UK’s northeast coast on Dogger Bank, the 1.4 GW Sofia Wind Farm is the largest in RWE’s portfolio and one of the farthest from shore. Spanning an impressive 593 square kilometers, it will feature 100 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbines, each standing at 252 meters.
This project is being built with the support of some of the most advanced offshore wind technology and top industry experts:
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is manufacturing, fabricating, and installing the 100 turbines.
- GE’s Grid Solutions, alongside Sembcorp Marine, is engineering and installing both offshore and onshore HVDC converter stations to handle 1,400 MW at 320 kV.
- Van Oord is delivering the 100 monopile foundations and 350 km of inter-array cables.
- Heerema Marine Contractors is deploying its Sleipnir, the world’s largest sustainable semi-submersible crane vessel, to transport and install the offshore converter platform.
- Cadeler has commissioned two brand-new X-class vessels specifically to transport and install Sofia’s turbines.
- Hellenic Cables is designing and supplying 360 km of 66 kV inter-array cables.
- EEW is delivering the extended monopile foundations under a contract with Van Oord.
About LAUTEC
For nearly a decade, LAUTEC has been accelerating wind power development and construction. We provide innovative software and consulting solutions, helping industry leaders improve buildout time, reduce costs, and enhance quality at every stage of wind farm development.
About Sea Impact
Sea Impact is an intelligence tool for the offshore wind industry to provide innovative market insights. It gives unprecedented performance insight across all offshore wind projects built to date in Europe, US, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. They combine project specific knowledge, historical vessel location data and extensive offshore experience to provide innovative market insight.
