Statkraft gets concession for 8-MW offshore turbine test installation

Dec 20, 2013 - The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, or NVE, has granted a 20-year concession to local utility Statkraft AS for the installation of an 8-MW offshore test turbine at Haugoya.

The testing facility will be constructed between Hopen and Veiholmen on Norway’s west coast near the company’s existing 150-MW Smola wind farm, Norwegian newspaper Tidens Krav (TK) said Thursday. The machine will have a capacity of between 6 MW and 8 MW and will be able to produce 20 GWh-25 GWh of electricity per year. The tip heights of the turbine were set to range between 140 metres (459 feet) and 180 metres.

The next step for Statkraft it to receive a final licence for its project from the country's Department of Petroleum and Energy.

The test turbine will support Statkraft in the development of the 7,200-MW Dogger Bank offshore wind zone in the North Sea. The utility takes part in the Forewind consortium together with RWE npower renewables, a unit of German utility RWE AG (ETR:RWE), UK utility SSE PLC (LON:SSE) and oil major Statoil ASA (OSL:STL). The tie-up has already received the thumbs-up for a 2,400-MW wind farm proposal near East Yorkshire in the zone.

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