Sif and Smulders secure East Anglia TWO foundations contract
ScottishPower Renewables has contracted Sif Netherlands for the supply of 64 monopiles, and the Sif and Smulders joint venture for the supply of 64 transition pieces for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm.
The monopiles will be manufactured at Sif’s expanded production facilities in Maasvlakte 2, Rotterdam, while the transition pieces will be produced in Sif’s Roermond plant and Smulders’ Hoboken facility. Once completed, these components will be loaded onto specialized vessels from Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 deep-sea quay.
“It’s great to confirm this important contract with Sif and Smulders so soon after East Anglia TWO’s Contracts for Difference success and we’re really pleased to welcome them to our East Anglia supply chain family. This will allow us to continue to move at pace to bring this vital project to life and powering cleaner and greener lives for years to come,” Charlie Jordan, ScottishPower Renewables CEO said:
“With our state of the art monopile production facilities, our strategic position in Rotterdam and our deep-sea quays with 24/7 access for the most modern installation vessels, we offer ScottishPower Renewables excellent conditions for a safe and efficient installation campaign. We thank ScottishPower Renewables for the trust and the open exchange of ideas in the preliminary phase. This contributed highly to the speed in which the capacity reservation agreement for this project, that was already included in our order book for 140 kilotonnes, could be converted into a final contract. We look forward to a continued constructive execution phase of this great contract'” Fred van Beers, CEO of Sif Holding.
Production of the monopiles and transition pieces will start in the second half of 2026. The project was already in Sif’s and Smulders’s order books for 2026 under exclusive negotiations and is now final, bringing Sif’s order book for 2026 to 210 kilotonnes in firm contracts.
The £4 billion (€4.6 billion) East Anglia TWO offshore windfarm will be located almost 33 kilometres off the Suffolk coast and is expected to supply up to 960 MW of offshore wind energy, enough to power the equivalent of almost one million homes each year.
