Our Top 7 Offshore Wind Premium Articles in 2022

Updated on 1 February 2023: Our seven most read articles on Offshore Energy Premium were unlocked until 31 January. However, you can still read these and other Premium content by signing up for a yearly or monthly subscription on Offshore Energy. Or, if you are not already a subscriber, start with a free two-week trial.

In 2022, some of our Premium articles (originally published on Offshore Energy) gathered significant interest. Here, we are bringing seven of our Premium news that were most read last year.

In August 2022, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) published documents as part of a public consultation process for the environmental assessment of the North Sea Energy Island, which contained information on the DEA also considering the possibility that wind turbines of up to 62 MW of nominal capacity per unit might be available in the (not so far) future. The DEA then confirmed this to offshoreWIND.biz.

Among the many concession requests that the Italian authorities have received for the construction of offshore wind farms, an application has also been submitted by an Italian developer for a 900+ MW floating wind project that could use part of the electricity produced by the wind turbines for green hydrogen production.

On 28 July 2022, the Greek Parliament passed a bill comprising regulations on the permitting of offshore wind projects and their development and operation, marking the country’s first legislative move on offshore wind energy.

In September, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) confirmed to offshoreWIND.biz that it had submitted an application for a gigawatt-scale floating wind farm near the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The project, which could also include Power-to-X (green hydrogen) capabilities, would be Denmark’s first and the world’s largest wind farm of this kind if approved to be built by 2027.

By 20 April, Brazil’s Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) had 55 applications on its desk, filed as part of the licensing process to obtain environmental investigation authorisation for offshore wind projects. While the number has now climbed to 71, the projects and developers listed in our previous article can give a fuller picture of the offshore wind momentum in Brazil and the interest from major European players.

TotalEnergies is eyeing the development of a minimum of 1.3 GW and a maximum of around 5.8 GW of offshore wind capacity in Denmark across two projects for which the company submitted proposals to the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) earlier this year through the country’s “open door” scheme.

In January 2022, details emerged on BlueFloat Energy and Sener’s proposal for a floating wind farm in Spain, which entered the environmental assessment process at the Ministry for the Ecological Transition in November 2021. While the partners later issued updates related to the project, planned to have a capacity of 525 MW, this is only for the first phase of the planned development, called Nordes Floating Offshore Wind Farm. The entire project is proposed to have 1.2 GW and would be one of Spain’s largest offshore wind farms.

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