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Danes schedule Thor tender

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 25/09/2020 Danish Energy Agency
The Danish Energy Agency has announced the launch of the tendering process for the Thor offshore wind area. It will be Denmark's largest offshore wind farm to date with a capacity of 800-1000 MW when it is fully established.

Publication of the contract notice and the tender material on 29th September 2020 will kick-start the tender process. Deadline for application for pre-qualification is no later than 1st December 2020. Pre-qualification results are schedules for 14th January 2021 followed by the final tender deadline to be 8 November 2021.

The tender model for
Thor follows the same process as previous Danish offshore wind tenders. The published tender material contains the tender conditions as well as a pre-qualification document, a draft concession agreement and all necessary licenses, etc. Together with the ongoing preliminary studies of the area for the wind farm, the aim is to make it easier for the tenderer to provide a cost-effective bid for the offshore wind farm.

The subsidies will be granted in accordance with a CfD-scheme designed for this tender. It is a two- way CfD with caps on both the Danish State’s payment to the concession owner and the concession owner’s payment to the Danish State, which will prevent that neither one carries the full risk of the electricity price developing fundamentally different from the forecast.  

As something new, the tender includes the offshore grid connection, including the offshore substation, landing cables and a high-voltage onshore substation as well as flexible size of the park between 800-1000 MW. This will allow bidders to optimise the dimensions of export cables and wind farm capacity, thus making the overall solution as cost-effective as possible.


Prior to submission of final bids, a strategic environmental assessment of the plan for
Thor offshore wind farm will be conducted. Furthermore, supplementary surveys with focus on benthic flora and fauna, marine mammals, fish and fisheries, underwater noise, safety of navigation, radar and radio interference, marine archaeology, visibility analysis and cumulative impacts as well as a full EIA for the onshore project to be built by Energinet and the concessionaire will be carried out. All results will be published as they become available in due time before submission of final bids.

Thor is located 20 km off the West Coast of Jutland in North Sea and will be the first of three projects included in the 2018 Energy Agreement to be built over the next decade. First power is expected in Q2 2024 and full commissioning by 2027. The site covers an area of 440 km2, west of Nissum Fjord. The authorisation is given for 30 years with the possibility of extension for five years with total investment costs for the site estimated to total of DKK 15.5 billion.


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