The Danish Energy Agency has sent a draft permit for preliminary investigations at sea regarding the Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm for consultation, the agency announced in a press release.
This gives Energinet, which will be responsible for the investigations, the right to collect relevant information about the preliminary investigation area at sea. The preliminary investigations consist of environmental biological, geophysical and geotechnical investigations with drilling and 3D mapping of the seabed.
They will, among other things, identify the two possible routes for cables to land, which will have landfall points at Kyndbyværket or Gilbjerg Hoved, west of Gilleleje Harbour, respectively. Both routes will lead to the transformer station in Hove, where the electricity will be connected to the public electricity transmission network.
The route to Kyndbyværket also appeared in the Danish Energy Agency's fine screening of sea areas for the establishment of new offshore wind farms from spring 2020, while the route to Gilbjerg Hoved is new.
Short deadline
The new possible route that will be investigated does not go through the Heatherhill nature area, which the mayor of Gribskov Municipality Anders Gerner Frost (Nyt Gribskov) had previously expressed concern about.
- I have great hope and faith that our nature will be taken into account. That one chooses to go ashore in some places where the nuisance associated with it is limited as much as possible, and that one takes care of nature in this connection, said Anders Gerner Frost back in June.
The deadline for comments is September 17, 2020. The short deadline is because Energinet must quickly get the feasibility study ships out to sail before the weather becomes too harsh. Hesselø is scheduled to be completed in 2027.
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