📋 Tender Overview
Scope : To Build 3.9 GW Wind Farm Offshore in Sweden
Its 3900MW Eystrasalt Offshore project is planned for a site about 60km from Hudiksvall in north-east Sweden and is located within one of the offshore wind zones the Swedish government identified last year.
The project would feature up to 256 turbines installed on fixed-bottom foundations, indicating an average power rating of about 15MW.
It could produce about 15TWh per year – enough to meet about 10% of Sweden’s current electricity use.
It has already surveyed the site and believes it has good wind conditions and favourable sea depths between 20 and 60 metres, and an average depth of about 40 metres.
The developer – Wpd’s offshore wind unit, rebranded after being taken over by Global Infrastructure Partners – has applied for a permit for the project. This would give Skyborn the exclusive rights to use the area to develop, build and operate an offshore wind farm, though the developer would still need to secure permitting approval for the project’s export cables.
It aims to start construction in the early 2030s and gradually commission the project before reaching full operations in the middle of the decade.
Skyborn will have to overcome icy conditions in the Gulf of Bothnia to build the project, with ice build-up preventing project construction for about half the year on average. The developer is considering the best ways to do this, including the optimal foundation design for the project.
