📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
Construction of 1.4-GW Korsnas offshore wind park in Finland.
Description:
The engineering and consulting firm had been selected to provide environmental impact assessment and prepare the local master plan for the project, which is sited off the coast of Korsnas, western Finland. Its responsibilities also include technical engineering for the Korsnas offshore wind park, which could come online in 2028 at the earliest. The Finnish National Board of Forestry manages one third of Finland’s land and waters and seeks to triple wind power generation on its sites by 2030.
A zoning initiative in relation to the offshore wind project was accepted by the municipality of Korsnas in 2020 and the environmental impact assessment started this spring. The firm was also involved as a consultant in the pre-engineering for the scheme. The state-owned enterprise plans to develop the project with a partner with know-how in offshore wind.
Previous Events:
December 2021- Metsahallitus, the Finnish Forest Administration, launching the process to select a partner for its Korsnas offshore wind project. The partner, a company or a consortium, will be picked through a competitive bidding process, which the Finnish state-owned enterprise aims to complete during 2022.
June 2021-Stockholm-based consultants AFRY will assess the environmental impact of offshore wind project in Finland planned by the Finnish National Board of Forestry (Metsahallitus)
