{"id":47716,"date":"2023-04-18T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=47716"},"modified":"2023-04-18T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:38:50","slug":"floating-offshore-wind-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=47716","title":{"rendered":"A huge 2.5 GW floating offshore wind farm has applied for a permit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sweden-based Freja Offshore, a joint venture between floating offshore wind developer Hexicon and\u00a0Mainstream Renewable Power<\/a>,\u00a0has applied to the Swedish Ministry of Climate and Business for a permit for a huge floating offshore wind farm.<\/p>\n

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Sweden\u2019s proposed floating offshore wind farm is called\u00a0Mareld, and it would be sited<\/a> off Sweden\u2019s west coast. The massive 2.5 gigawatt (GW) project has the potential to deliver 9-12 TeraWatt hours (TWh). That\u2019s the equivalent of more than half of the electricity consumption of the nearby V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland region \u2013 and the majority of Sweden\u2019s west coast currently imports its electricity.<\/p>\n

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To put the size of Mareld into perspective, Norway\u2019s 88 MW Hywind Tampen is currently the world\u2019s largest floating offshore wind farm \u2013 and offshore wind is such a fledgling industry that Hywind Tampen is operating nearly half (47%<\/a>) of the world\u2019s floating offshore wind capacity.<\/p>\n

Mareld\u2019s website has a timeline that estimates that it takes three months to finish the completion procedure, three to eight months to finish the referral procedure, and if the government approves the project, it will take another three to four years until the wind farm produces its first electricity \u2013 so that\u2019s roughly 2028.<\/p>\n

Sweden aims to achieve net zero by 2045<\/a>, and its electricity consumption is projected to double, from around 150 TWh to around 300 TWh annually.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sebastian Bringsv\u00e6rd, head of Norway and Sweden at Mainstream Renewable Power, said:<\/p>\n

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Offshore wind is still in the start phase in Sweden, but we have moved to position ourselves early in the market to take a lead in the development of the sector. The location of Mareld and our other three sites that we developing are attractive in their proximity to Sweden\u2019s big cities and industry clusters, which require a lot of energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Freja Offshore is planning to develop offshore wind at four sites in Sweden. Together, they have the potential to supply over 6 million households with renewable electricity.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> This floating wind platform with tilted towers earned a European patent<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo and map: Hexicon<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sweden-based Freja Offshore, a joint venture between floating offshore wind developer Hexicon and\u00a0Mainstream Renewable Power,\u00a0has applied to the Swedish Ministry of Climate and Business for a permit for a huge floating offshore wind farm. Sweden\u2019s proposed floating offshore wind farm is called\u00a0Mareld, and it would be sited off Sweden\u2019s west coast. The massive 2.5 gigawatt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}