On Wednesday, Swedish Vattenfall announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Port of Thorsminde that the company's management of the construction of Vesterhav Syd and Nord will be based at the port.
The port itself will be serviced from Hvide Sande Port, and since Vattenfall has already operated from the Port of Esbjerg for several years, the company is spreading well along the west coast, but Vattenfall's involvement on the west coast will probably not stop with the current locations.
According to Anne Mette Traberg, who is Vattenfall's Danish country manager, the growth opportunities for the West Coast potentially extend beyond Esbjerg, Hvide Sande and Thorsminde.
- We expect to have to use the port of Thyborøn as a support point in servicing the Vesterhav Nord park. We are working out what our presence could look like and have a very good dialogue with the Port of Thyborøn. We hope to have something new to tell in the autumn, she says in a press release.
Expression of a growing industry
The fact that Vattenfall is increasing its presence along the West Coast, and not just in Esbjerg, is an expression of the fact that offshore wind is generally growing.
- Esbjerg is a strong port and will continue to be a powerhouse in the expansion of offshore wind in the North Sea. But as the parks become more numerous and spread over a larger area, we will see that the activities on land spread across the entire West Coast, says Anne Mette Traberg.
Vattenfall's control center is located in Esbjerg, where the energy company manages all of its approximately 1,200 wind turbines across Europe. At the same time, Vattenfall is building a new international central warehouse in the city of approximately 2,200 m2 under roof and over 10,000 m2 of outdoor space. The new warehouse will be ready on August 1st this year.
When the many political ambitions for even more offshore wind in the North Sea are to be realized towards 2030 and beyond, even more growth will come to the region, estimates Anne Mette Traberg.
- The growth in offshore wind in recent years has been important for Denmark and the wind industry, but modest when the new ambitions are the benchmark. But even so, the growth has already meant that we now have activities in at least four places on the west coast. Before, we were only in Esbjerg. You can imagine where the West Coast will be in 2030, she says.
The government has an ambition to build 35 GW of offshore wind in the North Sea towards 2050. In Denmark in general, the government wants to build nine GW towards 2030. Today, Denmark has 2.3 GW of offshore wind, of which Vattenfall operates 1.2 GW. Vattenfall is therefore the largest
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