The companies will work towards reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCoE) for floating wind and establishing a European supply chain to support Ørsted’s European project pipeline, Ørsted said.
They will also evaluate mass-producing cost-competitive construction solutions based on floating concrete platforms, Acciona added.
Bio-products
The companies will work on reducing the carbon footprint of floating wind infrastructure by jointly exploring the use of carbon-neutral bio-cement, bio-concrete, and other materials and solutions that support their biodiversity and carbon reduction goals, according to Ørsted.
Floating offshore wind is expected to make up more than 20% of new wind farms by the mid-2030s, Ørsted said.
The goal of our collaboration with Acciona is to take floating wind from the innovation to the industrialisation stage,” said Rasmus Errboe, executive vice president and CEO of Europe at Ørsted.
Commercialising floating wind
Orsted said it wass already taking steps to commercialise floating offshore wind, including the 100MW Salamander project in Scotland. Orsted won a lease for Salamander last month as part of a joint venture, and earlier this month acquired a majority stake in the project.
“Ørsted intends to further grow our European floating pipeline, with Spain being a key market of interest for us,” Errboe added.
Earlier this month, Orsted and Spanish energy firm Repsol announced plans to set up a joint venture to identify and jointly develop floating offshore wind projects in Spain. The country is targeting 3GW of floating offshore wind by 2030.
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