Haewoori Offshore Wind 2 and three, Copenhagen Infrastructure Associate’s (CIP) floating offshore wind initiatives in South Korea, have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Aker Options and Precept Energy for the floating foundations.
Haewoori 2 and three are deliberate to have a capability of 500 MW every. The floating offshore wind initiatives will likely be situated off the coast of Ulsan.
As a part of the scope, Aker Options will coordinate the design and supply of the floating basis constructions required for the Haewoori Offshore Wind challenge and carry out the front-end engineering design of the inter-array cable, marshaling port, wind turbine integration, and transport and set up.
As well as, the corporate will perform execution planning, and work with Haewoori Offshore Wind to have interaction with the Korean provide chain to maximise native engagement within the initiatives.
Precept Energy will work below subcontract to carry out the design of the floating platforms and mooring system based mostly on its WindFloat expertise.
Work will begin instantly on the FEED and is because of be accomplished by November 2024.
“The mixed technical experience and know-how of Aker Options and Precept Energy will present us with the capabilities to ship one of many first industrial scale floating wind initiatives on the earth. Collectively, we’ll proceed to have interaction the Korean provide chain to deliver the information from actual deployment expertise, thereby serving to Korea to speed up its floating offshore wind business, whereas lowering price and threat for these first initiatives,” stated Jonathan Spink, CEO of Haewoori Offshore Wind.
The Haewoori Offshore Wind is a 1.5 GW floating challenge situated off the japanese coast of Ulsan. The challenge is below improvement and present process survey and allowing actions.
“With a powerful wind useful resource, rising vitality wants, and a deep industrial base, Korea is nicely on monitor to turning into the primary market on the earth to deploy floating wind expertise at industrial scale,” stated Aaron Smith, Chief Business Officer at Precept Energy.
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