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WIND Renewable Eng.

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07/8/2023
06:28
BP planning for subsidy-free offshore wind farms
By a Daily Business reporter | August 7, 2023

BP has ambitious offshore plans

Energy giant BP is looking to build two huge subsidy-free wind farms in British waters in a move that would enhance its credentials with the green lobby and taxpayers.

Work could begin on the Morgan and Mona projects in the Irish Sea as soon as next year without contracts from the UK government to guarantee their revenues.

The wind farms together would boast up to 214 turbines about 20 miles off the coasts of north Wales and northwest England and could power 3.4 million homes.

Industry experts believe chief executive Bernard Looney’s timescale may be ambitious, given that the company has yet to apply for planning consent, which can take several years to secure.

However, he is keen to shift opinion towards the oil and gas majors who are struggling to convince the public and policymakers that they are focusing on renewable sources of energy.

Large scale wind farms in UK waters have been supported by subsidies, often by “contracts for difference” which guarantee that consumers pay a fixed price for electricity generated, topping up market prices with subsidies when required and offering revenue certainty to developers.

The BP boss told The Times: “We may not enter any [contracts for difference] auction actually, because our strategy is to use the electrons [electricity] for our own use where we can. There’s a lot of green electricity demand for us in the UK.”

BP planned to invest £1 billion in electric vehicle charging in Britain and to build green hydrogen plants on Teesside, he said.

He says the big issue has been the grid connection which he believed the company is “very close” to securing.

“I think the teams have made really, really good progress, which is what is giving us more confidence around maybe having a shorter lease period in terms of lease payments,” he said.

ariane
05/8/2023
06:22
August 4, 2023, by Nadja Skopljak

French telecommunications corporation Orange has taken delivery of its new cable laying and repair vessel (CLRV), said to be designed for the maintenance of cables for offshore wind projects.


The vessel, named Sophie Germain after the pioneering French mathematician and philosopher, is currently on its way from Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard to France.

The CLRV is expected to arrive at Orange Marine’s base of La Seyne sur Mer around mid-August, when it will replace Raymond Croze, launched in 1983.

The newbuild vessel was designed by Norway’s VARD and is of the VARD 9 03 design for the maintenance of submarine cables, both fiber-optic telecommunication cables and inter-array power cables used for offshore wind farms.

The cable layer is 100 meters long, has a beam of 18.8 meters and a deadweight capacity of 1,800 DWT, can achieve a speed of 14.5 knots and has accommodation facilities for 76 persons. It has three cable tanks to carry fiber optic and power cables, one of which is fitted with a carousel system.

This is Colombo Dockyard’s first-ever CLRV to be delivered to the European market from Sri Lanka.

To remind, Orange revealed at the end of 2020 that it was targeting the offshore wind sector with the order of a cable vessel specially designed for the maintenance of submarine cables, including inter-array cables used on offshore wind farms.

”We will have a new and high-performance tool, with a low environmental footprint, which will allow us to offer high-quality services for several decades to our customers, not only owners of submarine telecommunications cables but also operators of offshore wind farms,” Didier Dillard, CEO of Orange Marine, said at the time.

adrian j boris
16/7/2023
08:28
How Big Oil Hijacked Germany’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Offshore Wind Auction


By Alex Kimani - Jul 14, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT

BP secured leases at two North Sea sites off the coast of Helgoland with total generating potential of about four gigawatts, paying a total of $7.5 billion.

TotalEnergies--through local subsidiaries--secured the other two sites for a total of $6.5 billion.


The U.S. government is considering opening 30 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico near Texas and Louisiana to offshore wind energy projects.


European oil and gas supermajors BP Plc (NYSE:BP) and TotalEnergies (NYSE:TTE) have won all of the capacity on offer in Germany’s 7GW offshore wind auction, the country’s biggest in history.


BP secured leases at two North Sea sites off the coast of Helgoland with total generating potential of about four gigawatts, paying a total of $7.5 billion.


The new sites--BP's first offshore wind projects in Germany--will nearly double the company’s global offshore wind pipeline.


Meanwhile, TotalEnergies--through local subsidiaries--secured the other two sites for a total of $6.5 billion. Germany currently has 8.4GW of operational offshore wind capacity.

“These awards are a huge milestone for BP's decarbonization plans in Germany and are a strong reflection of our wider strategy.

The renewable power we aim to produce will anchor the significant demand we expect for green electrons for our German operations," Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, BP's EVP for gas and low-carbon energy, said.

But not everyone is particularly pleased with these giant clean energy projects. Multiple bidders, including the winning bids, pledged to build without any subsidies or state support aka ‘‘negative bidding’’;, thus triggering an additional “dynamic bidding procedure”. Negative bidding creates additional costs for offshore wind developers, which they pass on either to the supply chain, already struggling with inflation, or to the consumers, who are grappling with higher electricity prices and costs of living.


Indeed, WindEurope has called for an end to financial bid auctions after BP’s and Total’s historic wins:

“Crucially the European Union wants to strengthen its energy security with competitive and home-grown renewables. The EU needs as much new wind energy capacity as it can get, as fast as it can get it. All the money paid in negative bidding is money our companies cannot invest in other wind energy projects. European governments should therefore not follow the German example of negative bidding. For example the industrial capacity for the construction of wind turbines, foundations and the installation vessels. But investments are also needed in grids, ports and skilled workers. Negative bidding is unhelpful here. Companies along the wind energy supply chain will have to work with even tighter margins, as developers pass on the extra costs of negative bidding to them,” the trade body said.

Gulf Of Mexico Gearing For Massive Offshore Wind Scheme

Back in the United States, the offshore wind sector is beginning to garner some serious attention after receiving more than its fair share of flak by the former president. Last year, the Biden administration outlined a range of clean energy initiatives, key among them plans to hold the largest-ever sale of offshore wind leases in U.S. history and accelerate the deployment of new power lines to transmit renewable electricity across the country.

At the center of the offshore push was the sale of six commercial leases in the New York Bight between Long Island and New Jersey, the most successful offshore wind lease auction in history. The 488,000 acres offshore wind lease auction fetched a record $4.37 billion from companies looking to develop the waters, with the installed capacity expected to be between 5.6 GW and 7 GW, enough to power 2 million homes. The Department of Energy also launched a Building a Better Grid initiative that will tap billions of dollars in funding from the $1T infrastructure law passed in November to finance new lines and grid upgrades.

Well, the Biden administration is planning to roll out a giant offshore wind project that will dwarf New York Bight.

According to Politico, the U.S. government is considering opening 30 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico near Texas and Louisiana to offshore wind energy projects, part of Biden’s goal to build 30 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2030, enough to power more than 10 million homes.

According to a report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the U.S. will need more than 2,100 wind turbines, at least 2,100 foundations, more than 11,000 kilometers of cables and five wind turbine installation vessels to achieve its offshore wind energy target. Currently, the country has more than 70,000 existing wind turbines listed in continental U.S.

Perfect Fit

Though the Gulf’s waters haven’t sprouted any wind turbines yet, there are several reasons why the Gulf of Mexico is a perfect fit as an offshore wind hub.

First off, the Gulf Coast also has an abundance of companies and workers with decades of experience in producing energy offshore. According to the Energy Information Administration, Gulf of Mexico federal offshore oil production accounts for 15% of total U.S. crude oil production. Major fields include Eugene Island block 330 oil field, Atlantis Oil Field, and the Tiber oilfield (discovered 2009) while notable oil platforms include Baldpate, Bullwinkle, Mad Dog, Magnolia, Mars, Petronius, and Thunder Horse.

“We have a really mature base for energy. We’ve got the know-how,” Lefton said. The people, the companies, the manufacturers that know how to do [Outer Continental Shelf] energy development are in the Gulf of Mexico,” the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management director Amanda Lefton has told Politico.

According to Hayes Framme, government relations manager for North America at Danish wind giant Ørsted A/S (OTCPK:DNNGY), the Gulf’s existing oil and gas infrastructure represents “a historic expertise.”

“One of the things that makes the Gulf area attractive is the fact that you’ve got a workforce that is accustomed to working on rigs in the ocean. It’s not like you have to build an industry. What you have to do here is basically help an existing industry evolve,’’; Dennis Arriola, CEO of the renewable energy company Avangrid Inc. (NYSE:AGR), has said.

Michael Hecht, the president and CEO of Greater New Orleans, says jobs in the Gulf’s traditional oil and gas industry have declined during the past decade, creating a sense of urgency to make a transition that allows people to retain their skills.

The Gulf could also become an important hydrogen hub, with wind power being used to generate green hydrogen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industries such as long-haul trucking, fertilizer manufacturing and aviation.

By Alex Kimani for Oilprice.com

adrian j boris
11/5/2023
10:54
Shanghai-based green technology company Envision Energy on Wednesday announced it will be shipping 60 MW of wind turbines for a project in Morocco co-owned by local energy firm Nareva and France’s Engie SA (EPA:ENGI).

Envision will supply machines of the EN171-5MW type for a wind farm in Dakhla that will be powering a large seawater desalination project under the Moroccan government.

Nareva and Engie are co-developing the project through a joint venture called Dakhla Water & Energy Company (DAWEC).

According to Didier Beaumont, sales director of Envision Energy, this order marks the company’s entry into the Moroccan market.


newsletter by Renewables Now.

misca2
22/4/2023
07:49
worldoil


VINCI wins $7 billion offshore wind contract in North Sea


World Oil Staff April 21, 2023

(WO) – VINCI won a €7 billion ($7.68 billion) contract to design, build and install three offshore windfarm energy converter platforms in the North Sea for a German operator for a total capacity of 6 GW.


The consortium made up of Dragados Offshore – a subsidiary of Cobra IS – and Siemens Energy has been awarded by TenneT (the Dutch-German transmission system operator) a contract to design, build and install the three offshore windfarm energy converter platforms in the North Sea.

The converter platforms will collect the alternating current generated by several wind farms and convert it into high voltage direct current (HVDC) which will then be reconverted into alternating current at onshore stations approximately 200 km away in the German towns of Wilhelmshaven and Heide.

The construction of these converter platforms, each weighing around 34,000 tonnes, will generate more than 2,000 jobs per platform providing workload until 2031.

This project is part of Germany's Energy Transition Plan, which calls for the construction of a major offshore wind power generation network. Dragados Offshore was recently awarded six other HVDC projects of the same type.

maywillow
06/3/2023
10:09
Orsted Joins Global Offshore Wind Alliance
06 March 2023 - 09:36AM
Dow Jones News


By Dominic Chopping



Danish renewable-energy company Orsted AS said Monday that it has joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance to support the faster deployment of offshore wind.

The Global Offshore Wind Alliance is a new global organization that brings together governments, the private sector, international organizations and other stakeholders to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind power.

The alliance was launched last year at COP27 by the International Renewable Energy Agency, the Global Wind Energy Council and the Danish government.

"Today, it often takes longer to plan than to build an offshore wind farm," Orsted Chief Executive Mads Nipper said.

"Governments and the private sector must collaborate to create an enabling regulatory environment and streamline permitting processes. Through GOWA, we can fast-track offshore wind deployment," he said.

GOWA member countries include Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Saint Lucia, the U.K. and the U.S., with more countries expected to sign up.

Orsted said that by joining GOWA it seeks to share knowledge and best practice to help meet the alliance's ambition of seeing at least 380 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity built by 2030 and an installed capacity increase of at least 70 gigawatts a year from 2030.



Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com



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March 06, 2023 04:21 ET (09:21 GMT)

sarkasm
16/2/2023
08:31
TotalEnergies SE said Thursday that it has partnered with offshore wind company Corio Generation to develop wind farms in Taiwan.

The French oil-and-gas major said the project, called Formosa 3, comprises three proposed wind farms on the central-western coast of Taiwan.

Under the agreement, Corio will remain the majority shareholder and lead developer in the project, Total said.

The wind farms, which could help Taiwan meet its green energy transition plans, represent a multi-billion investment from the partners and project lenders, the company added.



Write to Maitane Sardon at maitane.sardon@wsj.com



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February 16, 2023 03:03 ET (08:03 GMT)

waldron
02/2/2023
07:10
Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU

Coal is cooked and gas is dissipating, as renewables delivered a fifth of all EU juice in 2022

Brandon Vigliarolo
Thu 2 Feb 2023 // 06:30 UTC

Take that, energy crisis: Wind and solar power generation rose to record levels in the EU last year, overtaking natural gas as an energy source for the first time and preventing a wider return to coal.

UK energy think tank Ember said in its 2023 European Electricity Review that wind and solar power generated 22 percent of the EU's energy last year, marking the first time the renewables surpassed natural gas, while also maintaining a lead over coal-fired power despite a slight increase in that manner of generation last year.

When Russia cut off supplies of natural gas in response to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, the report said, the EU's response was to "accelerate its electricity transition".

The shocks of 2022 only caused a huge wave of support for renewables

That acceleration saw solar energy generation in the EU rise by a record 39TWh in 2022 - a 24 percent YoY increase. Solar installations in the EU rose by 47 percent last year, the report said.

But wider energy transition plans were derailed by a Europe-wide drought that caused hydroelectricity to fall to its lowest levels in 20 years, and poorly-timed maintenance among France's aging nuclear power fleet. Fears emerged that additional coal plants would need to be brought online to offset shortages, but that scenario never came to pass.

A warm winter meant that the coal plants reactivated in the EU went largely idle, and only saw an average of 18 percent utilization through Q4 2022, Ember said. Of the 26 plants brought online, nine saw zero utilization, Ember said, though coal power generation still rose by seven percent between 2021 and 2022.

Collectively, all these numbers mean that any fear - or possibility - of a rebound for coal-fired electricity generation should be considered dead, said report author and Ember's Head of Data Insights, Dave Jones.


"Europe has avoided the worst of the energy crisis. The shocks of 2022 only caused a minor ripple in coal power and a huge wave of support for renewables," Jones said.

In the coming year, the report predicts, hydro power generation is likely to rebound, French nuclear facilities will come back online, and wind and solar deployments will continue to accelerate.

"Europe is set to witness a huge fall in fossil fuels," the report states.

Globally, 2021 marked the first year wind and solar fulfilled 10 percent of worldwide energy needs, but fossil fuel generation rose that year as well.

Nuclear energy provided the same amount of power for the EU - 22 percent - that wind and solar did last year, with most of that coming from France. With French nuclear power stations offline for maintenance, and Germany shutting down some of its plants in the past couple of years, Ember isn't predicting a significant increase in EU nuclear power generation next year.

The 31-member International Energy Agency has said it believes there's no practical path to net-zero carbon emissions goals that doesn't run straight through expanded use of nuclear energy.

Regardless of future decisions on energy generation sources, Ember said that the past winter proved one thing: reliance on fossil fuels as a fallback isn't sustainable.

Gas and coal "cause skyrocketing electricity prices and energy insecurity," Ember said, urging EU policymakers to "step up to ensure the right policies, investments and infrastructure are in place" to enable a shift away from dependency on coal and gas.

adrian j boris
26/10/2022
08:18
TotalEnergies SE said Wednesday that it has created a joint venture with Brazilian developer Casa dos Ventos to build and operate a 12 gigawatt renewable portfolio.

The French oil-and-gas major said the newly formed JV, of which it is set to hold 34%, will have the right to acquire the current and new projects that are or will be developed by CDV as they reach execution stage.

The company will pay a cash consideration of $550 million and up to $30 million in earn-out to complete the acquisition, it said.

The portfolio includes 700 megawatts of onshore wind capacity in operation, 1 gigawatt of onshore wind under construction, 2.8 gigawatts of onshore wind and 1.6 gigawatts of solar projects under well-advanced development, according to TotalEnergies.



Write to Giulia Petroni at giulia.petroni@wsj.com



(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 26, 2022 03:39 ET (07:39 GMT)

sarkasm
01/10/2022
09:29
Ørsted Closes $3.3 Billion Sale of 50% Stake in UK's Hornsea 2 Offshore Wind Farm
09/30/2022 | 05:08am BST


(MT Newswires) -- Ørsted (ORSTED.CO) on Thursday concluded the 3 billion-pound sterling ($3.33 billion) sale of its 50% stake in the Hornsea 2 wind farm off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea to a consortium.

The consortium comprises AXA IM Alts and Crédit Agricole Assurances. The 1.3-gigawatt wind farm became fully operational on Aug. 31.

Ørsted shares were down over 5% on Thursday's close.

grupo guitarlumber
23/9/2022
07:21
23rd Sept 2022

The government is seeking to speed up the deployment of new energy projects by streamlining authorisation procedures and offering financial incentives to communities.

Earlier this month the government submitted to the French parliament a draft law on the ‘accélération des énergies renouvelables’.

The measure follows a major speech made by the President in February this year, when he set out his plan to revive nuclear power, develop renewable energy and phase out fossil fuels.

The objective of the plan is to reduce energy consumption by 40% in 30 years and to end reliance on fossil fuels by an increase of 60% in electricity production.

The main elements of the plan are the renovation of housing, the transformation of the car industry and the decarbonisation of industry.

Wind and solar power figure prominently but the plan also seeks to prolong the life of existing nuclear reactors and to also significantly increase the size of the nuclear park. As has been widely reported, at the present time half the 56 nuclear reactors in France are currently out of service due to maintenance.

Due to the resistance to on-shore wind power in France, the government have chosen to increase by tenfold the programme for the installation of solar farms, which are considered less controversial. It intends to do that by imposing an obligation of solar panels on large car parks, and by installing them on abandoned roads. The government's own energy agency has already questioned the viability of the scale of programme, as they do not consider sufficient sites are available.

There will also be 50 offshore wind farms to reach 40 GW by 2050, and onshore wind capacity will now be doubled in 10 years, as opposed to 30 years. Over half the current on-shore installations are located in the two regions of Hauts-de-France and Grand Est, primarily due to climatic conditions, as shown on the graphic below.

New Law

The proposed new law aims to put in the place the legal and administrative processes necessary to achieve those objectives, with the accent on simplifying existing authorisation and procurement procedures.

According to the government, it currently takes ten years to develop an offshore wind farm, five years for a solar farm and seven years for a wind farm, around twice as long as most other countries in Europe.

Litigation over on-shore wind farms is particularly strong, with 70% of proposed installations the subject of proceedings in the courts, despite the fact that the courts rarely rule in favour of the protesters.

Although a great deal remains to be specified by decree, there are three main elements contained in the draft law.

One of the key proposals to run in parallel different elements of the authorisation process for projects, rather than sequentially. As might be expected, projects of this nature require not only planning consent, but an environmental assessment and technical validation. Nevertheless, developers have pointed out that nothing is stated about reducing the amount of documentation that must be submitted, which they consider remains very substantial.

Likewise, the government are proposing to increase the threshold that requires submission of an environmental assessment, in order to exempt small projects, but the criteria for doing so are not specified.

Such a proposal also happens to fly in the face of the principle of ‘non-regression' of the environment, which is currently enshrined in a 2016 law on biodiversity. According to that law, protection of the environment ‘can only be the subject of constant improvement.’

Finally, some projects will be given the status of ‘overwhelming public interest’, which will grant them exemption from the environmental conditions it would otherwise need to meet. Once again, there is no detail in the law, which will be left to decree.

In order to make the process of public consultation more democratic, the measure also provides for the introduction of electronic voting as part of any public inquiry into a scheme.

As if to incentivize local communities to vote in favour of such projects, some of the financial benefits of the projects are to be returned to them. According to the government: ‘The idea is that these renewable energies generate a certain amount of income and that these revenues could be redistributed to people who are directly concerned by a visual presence of these means of production," but without specifying what form this would take.

France Insider News

adrian j boris
10/9/2022
10:53
A Swiss pumped-storage power station, which can both produce electricity and store power from other sources, has been officially inaugurated.

This content was published on September 9, 2022 - 14:39 September 9, 2022 - 14:39
swissinfo.ch/mga

The Nant de Drance hydroelectric plant in western Switzerland has been operational since July. Its turbines can generate 900 megawatts of electricity per hour by releasing water from an upper reservoir through dam sluice gates.

This is a similar amount of electricity production as the Gösgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland, making Nant de Drance one of the largest power producers in Europe.

The Nant de Drance facility can also store power by pumping the water back up to the reservoir ready for re-use when more electricity is needed. The storage capacity of the plant is equivalent to more than 400,000 car batteries.

It was built to cope with fluctuations in wind and solar-power supply and help stabilise electricity output Europe-wide.

It could, for example, store surplus energy from solar plants in Europe to be later released when the sun is not shining.

The Nant de Drance station is built in a remote region of canton Valais at an elevation of 2,225 metres above sea level next to the Vieux Emosson reservoir.

adrian j boris
31/8/2022
17:04
World’s largest offshore wind farm reaches full operations in UK
August 31, 2022

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Orsted has reached full commercial operations at the 1300MW Hornsea 2, which is now the world's largest offshore wind farm in service.

The 1.3GW project comprises 165 wind turbines, located 89km off the Yorkshire Coast, which will help power over 1.4 million UK homes with low-cost, clean and secure renewable energy.

It is situated alongside its sister project Hornsea 1, which together can power 2.5 million homes and make a significant contribution to the UK Government’s ambition of having 50GW offshore wind in operation by 2030. 

The Hornsea Zone, an area of the North Sea covering more than 2,000 sq km, is also set to include Hornsea 3.

The 2.8GW project is planned to follow Hornsea 2 having been awarded a contract for difference from the UK government earlier this year.

Hornsea 2 has played a key role in the ongoing development of a larger and sustainably competitive UK supply chain to support the next phase of the UK’s offshore wind success story, Orsted said.

[Staff Report]

waldron
22/8/2022
17:20
Engie SA said Monday that its 50-50 joint venture with EDP Renovaveis SA, Ocean Winds, was awarded two seabed leases for offshore wind projects in Scotland.

Ocean Winds was named the preferred bidder by Crown Estate Scotland for two sites off the Shetland Islands with a total of 2.3 gigawatts capacity, the French energy company said.



Write to Ed Frankl at edward.frankl@dowjones.com



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August 22, 2022 11:07 ET (15:07 GMT)

waldron
07/8/2022
20:19
Wood To Design 100MW Floating Wind Farm Off Scotland
by Bojan Lepic
|
Rigzone Staff
|
Sunday, August 07, 2022

Wood To Design 100MW Floating Wind Farm Off Scotland

Wood has been awarded the principal designer and pre-FEED scope for Salamander – the 100MW floating wind farm development off Scotland.

Engineering and project management company Wood has been awarded the principal designer and pre-FEED scope for Salamander – the 100MW floating wind farm development off Scotland.

The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted, and Subsea 7, will be a major contributor to ensuring the UK government’s target of delivering 5GW of operational floating offshore wind by 2030 is both achievable and to the maximum benefit of public and private stakeholders.

The pioneering project is designed to provide the Scottish supply chain with an early capacity development opportunity, enabling it to play a much greater role in subsequent large-scale floating offshore wind buildout. The project will deploy innovative and cutting-edge floating offshore wind technologies to support the cost reduction and learning journey needed for the commercial deployment of floating offshore wind.

“Given Scotland’s enviable renewable energy resources, the country has a tremendous opportunity to cement its position as a global leader in the fast-growing floating offshore wind market. Developments like the Salamander project will play a vital role in providing low-carbon energy for the region and in helping the UK to meet its ambitious decarbonization targets. We are proud to be guiding the development of this innovative project and which could set the standard for future floating wind developments across the globe,” Azad Hessamodini, Executive President of Wood Consulting, said.

Wood will undertake and manage a system-level pre-FEED to enable the planning, costing, and risk assessment of a FEED design process. As part of the scope, Wood will manage the interfaces with the foundation designer and provide design services for the subsea and onshore cables as well as grid and onshore electrical connections.

The scope also includes wind turbine generator OEM engagement, collation of site data, ports, transport and installation analysis, and O&M strategy and certification.

Salamander is intended to be progressed through the innovation track of Crown Estate Scotland’s forthcoming Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas leasing round. Opening in August 2022, the leasing round will grant seabed leases through an auction process, which will be split into two pots – one for smaller scale innovation projects of less than 100 MW and one for larger projects linked to oil and gas infrastructure.

“Salamander will provide a vital stepping-stone to delivering Scotland’s future commercial-scale offshore wind buildout. This project can demonstrate a pathway to reducing cost, reducing risk, and developing Scotland as a destination for innovation, in time for the upcoming wave of larger-scale developments from 2030 onwards. There’s no other project that offers such valuable and broad learnings for Scottish industry and stakeholders over the next few years. We look forward to working with the team at Wood to progress Salamander to the next stage of development,” Huw Bell, Salamander Project Director, added.

This award builds on the relationship Wood already has with Simply Blue Group, having previously been awarded a pre-FEED contract for a proposed floating offshore wind farm located off the west coast of Ireland.

To contact the author, email bojan.lepic@rigzone.com

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