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Van Oord now a shareholder in Estonian project

By: Tom Russell 20/10/2020 Van Oord

General Windfarms

Van Oord is now a shareholder in Saare Wind Energy, which is developing the Saaremaa offshore wind farm in Estonia. The collaboration will intensify the development process for this offshore wind farm.

Saare Wind Energy has knowledge of local conditions and the environmental impact assessment. Van Oord, being an experienced offshore wind contractor, has been involved in several early developments of offshore wind farms.

Saare Wind Energy is developing an area of up to 200 km2 south-west of the Estonian Island Saaremaa. The area could facilitate an offshore wind farm of over 1,000 MW. The development of the wind farm started in 2015. The Estonian government decided in May 2020 that Saare Wind Energy can proceed with the location permit procedure and the associated Environmental Impact Assessment.

In January 2020, Saare Wind Energy and Van Oord agreed to cooperate on the Saaremaa offshore wind farm project. The Netherlands Embassy in Tallinn and the Estonian Investment Agency supported the initiative for this collaboration.

On 30 September 2020, the energy ministers of Poland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Sweden, along with representatives of European Commission signed the ‘Baltic declaration for offshore wind energy’. A joint declaration on the development of offshore wind power and an efficient electricity infrastructure to facilitate the transmission of renewable energy to the Baltic Sea countries. The declaration is intended to bring about cooperation in the development of offshore wind power on the Baltic Sea.

The Saaremaa offshore wind farm location offers an unique opportunity for a hybrid project. Hybrid projects are offshore wind farms in combination with interconnectors to neighbouring countries. This marks a change in offshore wind from separate projects towards meshed offshore networks and energy hubs.

For more information on offshore wind farms worldwide, click here. Alternatively, you can view projects worldwide on 4C Offshore's Interactive Map.

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