The Norwegians in Athens for investments in offshore wind
Greece will be completed next week by executives of the Norwegian Offshore Wind Cluster (NOWC), the national cluster set up by Norway to promote innovation and competitiveness in the offshore wind farms sector. (SUPPORT)
The Norwegian industry, which is a leader in the international industry, has gained a bow for the Greek seas and their rich potential for offshore wind farms, having gained significant advantages from the utilization of its know-how and technology. oil and his natural gas. The Norwegian Offshore Wind Cluster (NOWC), the national cluster set up by Norway to promote innovation and competitiveness in the marine wind sector, will be in Athens next week. This business partnership has more than 300 member companies, including the giant Equinor (evolution of the Statoil oil), which covers the entire supply chain and aims to become a player in the global market for the development of marine wind farms. The NOWC Staff will have a closed meeting with Greek companies next Tuesday at the Norwegian Embassy in Athens in order to conduct market research and explore cooperation for the joint development of floating wind farms in the Greek seas. Meetings that will be held by the executives of the Norwegian offshore wind industry and with representatives of RIS to be informed about the institutional framework that is currently being recorded.
The closed meeting at the Norwegian embassy will be attended, among others, by Mytilineos, GEK Terna, ELPE, Motor Oil, PPC Renewables, the Kopelouzos group, ENTEKA and Dimitris Karagoules’ Resinvest, which is located according to information – in discussions for cooperation with the Norwegian company. The above Greek groups have already “scanned” the Greek seas and are planning their own projects, looking forward to collaborations with special European companies. Some have already entered into cooperation agreements, such as Terna Energy with Ocean Winds (OW), which is a partnership of EDP Renewables and ENGIE, for the joint development of 1.5 GW offshore wind farms and Mytilineos with the Danish Copenhagen Offshore Partners. Foreign investment interest has also been expressed by the Spanish Iberdrola, the Portuguese Principal Power and the American Quantum and BlueFloat, as well as the oil Shell and Total. Norwegian Equinor, the world’s largest offshore wind company, has turned its attention to the sea – from Scotland, Britain and France to the Canary Islands and Korea – and was one of the first to show interest in Hellas. He even proposed to RIS a specific investment plan for the development of a floating wind farm in the Cyclades region between Tinos, Syros and Mykonos.
Norwegian industry is an international leader in the field of marine wind energy.
Greek and foreign investors expect the institutional framework that will pave the way for the installation of floating wind turbines with a capacity of 1.5-2 GW by 2030, which correspond to investments of 6 billion. euro. The new promising market will open with the central planning model, where the state will select marine zones that can accommodate floating wind farms and maintain control of the power to be published. The location of the marine “plots” but also the conduct of tenders, according to a scenario of RIS, which will be undertaken by EDEY (Hellenic Hydrocarbon Management Company). IPTO will be the one that will study and design the appropriate solutions for the interconnection of the parks, while at the same time the licensing process will mature by the end of 2025, so that within the first quarter of 2026 the first tenders will be made by RAE. The ideal areas for floating wind farms, according to RIS data, are located in the Cyclades, in the North Aegean (between Lemnos and Agios Efstratios), in the Dodecanese (on the axis Ikaria – Patmos – Leros), as well as between Crete and Karpathos. The determination of the areas took into account the wind potential, the waves, the seismic activity, the slope of the bottoms, the depths near the shores, the geopolitical conditions and the approved ten-year IPTO interconnection program.