Falck Renewables and Blue Float Energy started to develop their third floating wind power project offshore Italy and stated that its capacity will reach 675 MW. Emerging technologies can install turbines in deep water because they have no fixed foundation.

In terms of project development, Italy is experiencing a boom in floating wind energy. The Ministry of Ecological Transformation said a month ago that since its appeal in June, it has received 64 expressions of interest in such efforts. Falck Renewables and Blue Float Energy formed a partnership in September and just announced a 675MW floating wind farm project.

Floating wind is safer than traditional offshore turbines

They created a subsidiary called Minervia Energia to develop a plan to install 45 turbines in the Gulf of Squias in the Ionian Sea. The location is 13 to 29 kilometers from the coast of Calabria, across the sea from Greece. Since these facilities are far from the coast, investors are also counting on local residents' opposition to diminish. However, the largest such facility in the world is only 50 megawatts. The two companies said that the estimated annual output is 2.4 TWh, which is equivalent to the energy consumption of more than 600,000 households and the production of 45,000 tons of green hydrogen. They submitted an application for a maritime concession and held a series of meetings with local stakeholders to inform them of the project.

This is the partner's third floating wind power plant project in a few months. The first is the 1.2GW Kailia Energia, which is planned to be built near Brindisi in the South Adriatic. Falck Renewables and Blue Float Energy recently revealed that their subsidiary Odra Energia will also develop up to 1.3GW of installed capacity in the Ionian Sea near the southern coast of the Apulian Peninsula.

Falck Renewables develops, designs, builds and manages renewable energy power plants. The company said it has 1.35 GW of installed capacity in the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden. The statement added that Blue Float Energy is developing offshore wind power projects in different regions of the world. The Italian National Wind Energy Association-ANEV's goal is to achieve 5 GW of floating offshore wind power by 2040, and the current capacity is zero.

AGNES combines floating wind energy with floating solar energy

Domestic energy service company Saipem announced in August that it plans to cooperate with domestic companies AGNES and QINT'X to build some of the first wind farms in the Adriatic Sea with a total capacity of 450 MW. But these projects, named Romagna1 and Romagna2, were expanded, and a 600MW fixed-bottom turbine was applied for in October. Keywords: engineering construction, engineering news

Another 100 MW floating solar panel should be installed next to Romagna 1. In addition, facilities near the coast of Ravenna are planned to power a 50-megawatt green hydrogen power plant. AGNES has three other offshore projects in the Adriatic Sea-including 2.6GW floating wind turbines, 800MW traditional wind turbines and 210MW floating solar.Editor/XingWentao