Statkraft, TrønderEnergi and Nordic Windpower DA join forces to build Europe’s largest onshore wind farm in central Norway.
The agreement triggers investment of around 11 billion in six wind farms totaling 1000 MW.
the construction work will start in the second quarter 2016. the first windmills will be delivered and installed in 2018 and all the parks will be completed in 2020.
Total 278 Vestas wind turbines, each with an output of 3.6 MW, will be installed in wind farms. Each wind turbine in the six parks have a tower height of 87 meters and a “wingspan”, ie rotor diameter of 117 meters.
Tremendous production
The wind farms being built at Fosen peninsula, Hitra and Snillfjord, in a coastal close range with what should be some of the best conditions for wind power production across Europe.
the six wind power projects totaling more than all of Norway’s wind power capacity, which today is at a scant 838 megawatts.
When wind farms are completed in 2020 will produce around 3.4 terawatt hours of electricity a year. This corresponds to three times Drammen bys annual consumption, according Norwea.
The decision will also trigger the construction of 241 kilometers of road and significant investments in the main grid.
Top mainland investment
– there are some very good news that it still gets wind power development in Trøndelag. This is one of the absolute largest industrial projects in mainland Norway, and will be important for the future development of renewable energy in this country, says Minister of Industry Monica Mæland in an email to TU.
When Hydro last week released the news that they invest 4.3 billion in new pilot plant at Karmøy, this was billed as the largest single investment in Norwegian mainland industries, set away from oil and gas, in over ten years.
Wind power investment in Central Norway is with its 11 billion far more than twice as large.
Fosen Wind development include wind farms Harbaksfjell, Roan, Storheia and Kvenndalsfjellet the north of Trondheim Fjord (about 750 MW) and wind farms Geitfjellet and Hitra 2 south of Trondheim Fjord (about 250 MW).
Was first shelved
the original Fosen Snillfjord- the project was shelved in June last year, because Statkraft said the project was not profitable. After violent reactions, including from Parliament, turned Statkraft and Statkraft, Agder Energi and NTE agreed to consider assessing development plans again.
Compared with the original Fosen- Snillfjord project has electricity production increased while the cost has decreased, according to Statkraft.
Statkraft announced never cost estimates for the first project, but said the terms of the new development plan makes it one of Statkraft’s most profitable projects.
Three reasons turnaround
– We do not want to be specific on numbers. But wind power project we have now is by far the best of all our projects throughout Scandinavia. No other projects are close to being better cost-wise, says CEO Christian Rynning-Tønnesen to TU.
– You abandoned Fosen development in June last year. How can you now conclude the opposite, and both increase power and reduce costs so soon after?
– There are three reasons for that. One is that we were allowed to make more of the development of 1,000 megawatts further north of Trondheim on Fosenhalvøya, where there is better wind conditions. The second is that we got more concessions given wind power projects to choose from, in agreement with TrønderEnergi and Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk. Thus, we got to take the best out of a pot of 1,600 megawatts.
– The third reason is that we have a technical collaboration with Vestas for best placement of turbines in the landscape, including the cheapest possible road construction summarizes Rynning-Tønnesen to TU.
More in north
It was Statnett original poster constraints that the large-scale wind power development of 1,000 megawatts was to be divided by 400 megawatts in south of Trondheim Fjord and 600 megawatts north of Trondheim fjord, Fosen.
After Statkraft shelved plans, adjusted Statnett requirement of 250 megawatts in the south, which gave room to consider other wind projects in the north than they originally intended, such as Harbaksfjell wind farms in Åfjord .
It is thus larger wind projects in Fosen, while projects on the south side of the bay are reduced.
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Had refuse
– Could you avoided canceling large expansion in June, and have you learned anything from the process led to shelve laying?
– I do not think it had been possible to get the project we sat in June profitable. Ever it is so one has to say no to things. I still feel that it would take was a whole new level. The first came on board after the original project was not decided, says Rynning-Tønnesen.
It is the joint venture company Fosen Wind DA, which will own the wind farms. Statkraft will own 52.1 percent of the company and be responsible for the development. TrønderEnergi stake is 7.9 percent.
Swiss ownership
At the same time Agder Energi out of wind power project in central Norway. Until now, the power company had a stake of 20.9 percent.
Nordic Windpower DA (NWP), a European investor consortium led by Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners has acquired the remaining 40.0 percent of companies.
Credit Suisse Energy operates with the support of the leading Swiss power producer and network owner BVW. Investors in the fund consisting of European financial players, such as insurance companies and pension funds.
Seller wind power Hydro
It is already clear that Hydro will buy about a third of wind power parks’ total production.
Hydro and Nordic wind power (NWP) has signed a long-term power contract for annual, regular deliveries of electricity, for a total of the purchase of 18 terawatt hours over a 20-year period.
The contract includes annual power deliveries to Hydro’s aluminum plant, including the aforementioned pilot plant at Karmøy.
– We are pleased to contribute to the realization of wind project Fosen, the largest wind project in mainland Europe, by ensuring stable industrial offtake of around a third of the annual production capacity in a considerable period of time says President and CEO Svein Richard Brandtzæg said.
– This shows the interplay between industrial development in Norway and the development of renewable energy resources, expands Brandtzæg.
Historical agreement
According to wind power Societies Norwea is agreement with Hydro historically.
– The energy agreement is almost as gratifying as the wind power development. It sends some signals to the power market when an operator, Hydro has a long-term power purchase agreement with a Norwegian wind farms. It is the first time in history, as far as we can understand, says special advisor Andreas Thon Aasheim to TU.
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