A renewable-power firm has found a previously-unknown shipwreck throughout a sonar survey within the Baltic Sea. 

Ignitis Renewables employed Fugro to hold out a backside survey over about 120 sq. kilometers of the Baltic off Lithuania, with plans to make use of the info for siting future offshore wind developments. The space had by no means been surveyed intimately, and Fugro’s vessel detected a 70-meter-long wreck that had by no means been noticed earlier than. 

Ignitis has turned over the info to Lithuanian authorities and researchers for additional investigation. There are solely 19 wrecks within the register saved by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, and this one would be the twentieth (if the ministry decides it’s precious sufficient for inclusion). 

The survey knowledge shall be used for the event of Lithuania’s first-ever offshore wind farm, which was awarded in August. It could have a capability of 700 MW, sufficient to energy a few quarter of the small nation’s vitality wants. The mission is predicted to start producing energy in 2030 and is permitted to proceed operations via 2071. 

Lithuania plans to make use of a special format for its subsequent offshore wind tender, scheduled for January 2024. Ignitis and its consortium companion paid for the appropriate to develop the lease; the brand new tender will observe the “contract for difference” mannequin, which subsidizes vitality manufacturing.