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Italian offshore flo ating
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Pan-European renewable energy developer Galileo and Hope Group have formed a joint venture t o develop a 1,100 MW floating of fshore wind project in the Adriatic Sea
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The Barium Bay floating wind farm, which is the name of the project and the JV, will be located over 40 kilometres from shore, to the nor th of Barletta
The Barium Bay project will have 74 15 MW wind turbines that will be able to capture speeds sufficient to produce over 3 billion kilowatt hours, which represents the annual electricity demand of over one million Italian households
The Joint Venture is currently completing all the necessar y environmental and technical studies and will file its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application within the summer
The project will also begin a 24-month wind measurement campaign at sea together with Spain’s Eolos Floating Lidar Solutions
“Barium Bay is a landmark project thanks to both its scale and potential contribution to Italy’s energy transition using exclusively local energy sources The Adriatic Sea offers a winning combination of key factors that make floating offshore wind projects highly attractive for Italy: good wind speeds, vast areas, and suitable connection solutions to the national grid”, commented Ingmar Wilhelm, Galileo’s CEO
The Barium Bay project fur ther consolidates Galileo and Hope Group’s par tnership, which star ted with Lupiae Maris, the joint venture for the development of a 525 MW wind farm with the same technology in Apulia, Italy, off the Brindisi and Lecce coasts
“We are enthusiastic and satisfied for having strengthened our par tnership with Galileo This confirms the validity of our collaboration and the synergies arising from it, thanks to which we developed competencies making us a reference in the growing Italian offshore wind market”, said Michele Scoppio, CEO of Hope Group
Italy currently has one offshore wind farm in its national waters, the 30 MW Taranto project, developed by Renexia and inaugurated in April last year https://galileo energy
