The Danish Vitality Company (DEA) has authorized the feasibility research report for European Vitality’s Jammerland Bay (Jammerland Bugt) offshore wind farm, a 240 MW venture off the Danish coast that’s quickly to be majority-owned by TotalEnergies.
The feasibility research report now greenlighted by the DEA consists of an environmental impression report with related annexes. The DEA states that the approval provides the developer the chance to proceed to the subsequent steps within the utility course of, together with making use of for an institution allow.
If European Vitality applies for an institution allow, the applying, along with the authorized environmental impression report with related annexes, a draft of the DEA’s institution choice, and a draft of the Danish Environmental Safety Company’s Part 25 allow for the onshore a part of the venture should be despatched for eight weeks of public session. If the venture proceeds to this course of, the listening to is predicted to start out instantly earlier than Easter 2024, the DEA says.
The DEA notes that it’ll solely take a ultimate choice on whether or not to present the venture the inexperienced gentle as soon as a brand new public listening to has been carried out on the allow utility.
“At European Vitality, we first filed the applying again in February 2012, and clearly right now marks an important milestone for this vital venture that may play a key position in securing inexperienced energy for purchasers within the municipality of Kalundborg and the remainder of Denmark,” Andreas Karhula Lauridsen, Vice President – Head of Offshore Wind at European Vitality, mentioned through social media.
“Within the coming days, the session interval will start and I sit up for presenting the ultimate plan for Jammerland Bay offshore wind park at a residents assembly quickly.”
European Vitality is the developer and at present the only real proprietor of the 240 MW offshore wind venture, through which TotalEnergies is predicted to amass an 85 per cent stake following an settlement the 2 firms signed in January.
Beneath the settlement, TotalEnergies can even take over a 72.2 per cent fairness stake within the 165 MW Little Belt South (Lillebælt Syd) nearshore wind venture which is, identical as Jammerland Bay, amongst the 9 open-door tasks that have been confirmed by the Danish Vitality Company in December 2023.
For Little Belt South, the DEA authorized the feasibility research report on 7 February and kicked off public session on the venture on 1 March following the submission of an institution allow utility.
The Jammerland Bay offshore wind farm is deliberate to comprise between 16 and 23 wind generators, put in between 6 and eight kilometres from the coast.
With a capability of 240 MW, Jammerland Bay will be capable to cowl the electrical energy consumption of 240,000 Danish households, European Vitality says.
The offshore wind farm is predicted to be accomplished in 2028.
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