A floating offshore wind farm deliberate in Arctic waters on Friday acquired 2 billion Norwegian crowns ($193 million) in state funding, with Norway viewing the nonetheless pricey know-how as a key contributor for business growth and emission cuts.
The GoliatVind mission within the Barents Sea, consisting of 5 15 megawatts generators and looking for to produce energy to the Arctic city of Hammerfest, beat out six different candidates in a young by authorities company Enova.
Norway hopes that floating offshore wind will present an industrial future for its offshore provide business in addition to a way of reducing emissions from oil and fuel manufacturing by changing fuel generators as a supply of energy provide.
“The government wants to make arrangements for floating offshore wind to become a new leg for the Norwegian supplier industry to stand on,” Energy Minister Terje Aasland mentioned in a press release.
Floating wind comparable to GoliatVind may assist to impress offshore oil and fuel installations whereas additionally supplying energy to land, Aasland added.
GoliatVind is owned by transport agency Odfjell Oceanwind, renewables developer Source Galileo and Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company.
It will connect with an present energy cable supplying energy from shore to the Goliat oil platform, operated by Vaar Energi, a subsidiary of Italy’s ENI.
The oil platform consumes round 50-55 MW of electrical energy, which implies that on full wind days, the deliberate generators may ship as much as 25 MW to shore, Gunnar Birkeland, the top of Source Gallileo Norge, instructed Reuters.
Birkeland wouldn’t present an general price estimate however mentioned the awarded funding was “significant” for the mission.
Operation is deliberate for 2028, inside a five-year deadline for completion set by the Enova award.
Another tender spherical for small-scale floating wind is already deliberate for later this yr, Enova mentioned.
Last yr, Equinor inaugurated the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm within the North Sea, which powers numerous oil and fuel platforms.
($1 = 10.3621 Norwegian crowns)
(Reuters – Reporting by Nora Buli, modifying by Terje Solsvik)
