Vattenfall, OX2 get OK for 1.6 gigawatts of projects off Sweden coast

offshoreWIND.biz:

The Swedish government has granted permission to Vattenfall and OX2 to build two offshore wind projects. Vattenfall received approval for its 1.2 GW Kattegat Syd offshore wind farm and OX2 for the northern, 400 MW part of its Galatea-Galene project.

OX2’s and Ingka Investments’ Galatea-Galene offshore wind project consists of two sub-areas located in Kattegat, about 25 kilometres outside the cities of Falkenberg and Varberg, both in the Swedish county of Halland. The entire development is planned to have 101 wind turbines and a capacity of up to 1.7 GW, and to be built and operated without subsidies.

The northern part, now approved for construction by the government, is Galene, which is proposed to comprise 21 turbines.

OX2 applied for a Natura 2000 permit with the County Administrative Board of Halland and submitted an application under the Act on Sweden’s Exclusive Economic Zone to construct Galatea-Galene in late 2021, and for a permit under the Continental Shelf Act in early 2022.

In January this year, the County Administrative Board of Halland approved the entire 1.7 GW offshore wind project and recommended that the government grants the project permission to be built. 

[Adrijana Buljan]

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