Several interesting news about the Swedish Offshore Wind market has been published the last couple of weeks that secures Sweden’s position as an attractive offshore wind market. Norwegian offshore wind developer Deep Wind Offshore has applied to develop a 1,5 GW floating offshore wiind project outside Stockholm.
Norwegian Offshore Wind has a working group for the Swedish market, with increased activity.
-Sweden is emerging as market for both bottom fixed and floating offshore wind” says Stein Erik Skilhagen, leader for NOWs working group for Sweden, and continues:
-With leading developers such as Vattenfall, RWE together with Norwegian developers such as DWO, Statkraft and Mainstream a strong project pipeline is being built. This will require the development of a domestic supply chain with great opportunities for the Norwegian suppliers in the offshore wind market.
Norwegian Offshore Wind, together with Innovation Norway and NORWEP, is setting up seminar on the 12 June, as a side-event for Swedish Offshore Wind Forum. In the seminar Vattenfall, RWE, DWO and Statkraft will present their project pipeline and what type of suppliers they are looking for. Moreover, the supply chain with Hitachi, NKT (tbc) and floating offshore wind hub in Kålvik will present.
For more information on the status of the Swedish Offshore wind market, the project pipeline, please join us at Swedish Offshore Wind Forum in Gothenburg on the 12 and 13 of June.