The Danish Power Company (DEA) has initiated a public session on the 165 MW Lillebælt Syd (Little Belt South) offshore wind farm, deliberate to be constructed within the Little Belt strait between the islands of Als and Helnæs.
On 7 February 2024, the DEA authorized the feasibility examine report for the mission and mentioned that, whereas the approval didn’t give the mission developer the fitting to construct the offshore wind farm, it enabled the corporate to proceed to the following steps within the utility course of, together with making use of for an institution allow.
The Company additionally famous it could solely take a ultimate determination on whether or not to offer the mission the inexperienced gentle as soon as a brand new public listening to had been carried out on the allow utility.
On its web site, the DEA states that if the developer applies for an institution allow, the appliance, along with the authorized environmental affect report with related annexes, a draft of the Danish Power Company’s institution determination, in addition to the session word from a accomplished authority listening to of the environmental affect report should be despatched for eight weeks of public session.
In line with info in the DEA’s press launch from 1 March, this materials is now a part of the continued public session that may run till 26 April 2024.
As soon as the session has been accomplished, the Danish Power Company will put together a session memorandum which is able to element on whether or not the obtained session responses will result in modifications to the mission and whether or not the Company can situation a Part 25 allow below the Renewable Power Act.
If a Part 25 allow is granted for the institution of the Little Belt South offshore wind farm, the developer, a three way partnership between European Power and SONFOR (previously Sønderborg Forsyning), can start the development work.
In January, TotalEnergies signed an settlement with SONFOR and European Power to buy 72 per cent of the shares within the mission firm Lillebælt Vind A/S. The deal first should acquire approvals from the authorities earlier than the possession formally takes impact, which is anticipated within the third quarter of 2024.
Little Belt South is deliberate to comprise eleven 15 MW wind generators, making up the mission’s complete put in capability of 165 MW. The facility from the wind farm is anticipated to provide energy each to the Sønderborg space’s electrical energy customers and to a deliberate Energy-to-X plant that may produce inexperienced fuels for planes and ships.
The offshore wind farm is anticipated to be accomplished in 2028.
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