Application for 1.5 GW of floating offshore wind in Sweden

Wind Energy – Sweden

Norwegian Deep Wind Offshore has applied to develop and operate a floating offshore wind project outside Stockholm.

In the first phase, it will be 1.5 GW.

The Swedish government has received the first application for a floating offshore wind farm outside Stockholm, after Deep Wind Offshore has submitted its plan to develop the Erik Segersäll wind farm in the Baltic Sea.

In the first phase, electricity production will be around 6.5 TWh, corresponding to the city of Stockholm’s total annual electricity consumption.

With this, Deep Wind Offshore strengthens its position in the Swedish market. Erik Segersäll is the company’s second application for the establishment of offshore wind in Sweden in a short time.

The first application, for the bottom-fixed offshore wind farm Olof Skötkonung in the Bothnian Sea, has been forwarded from the government to the county board in Uppsala.

“After three years in the Swedish market, we are very pleased to have submitted applications for one fixed and one floating project. We have already reached an important milestone in the first project, which confirms our strong pipeline,” CEO Knut Vassbotn of Deep Wind Offshore says.

Original Source: https://ocean-energyresources.com/2024/05/29/application-for-1-5-gw-of-floating-offshore-wind-in-sweden/