WINDENERGY 2014 RECHARGE OFFICIAL EVENT DAILY ProducedHAMBURG by RECHARGE rechargenews.com BERND RADOWITZ Siemens Gamesas offshore wind boss, Andreas Nauen Photography Siemens Gamesa A fter Taiwan, Japan will be the next big market for offshore wind power in Asia, with projects of at least 600MW starting to be installed from 2022-23, says Andreas Nauen, offshore wind chief executive at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE). Everything falls into place there. You have an existing industry, decent wind conditions, and legislation is currently being passed through parliament, Nauen told Recharge in an interview at the Global Wind Summit. While in the longer run, floating wind is likely to be the technology of choice off Japan due to the deeper waters found off its steep continental shelf a first wave of projects will be bottom-fixed, he said, adding that the time frame for the transition to floating wind is not entirely clear. Nauen said he couldnt immediately give an exact estimate of the volumes likely to be installed off Japan in the coming years, but said that the first so-called harbour projects will still be relatively small, in the 200-400MW category. And then the really big projects will start, with installations maybe in 2022-23, and we understand [their size will be] about 600MWplus. Legislation to set a framework for offshore wind expansion in Japan was delayed in July by a parliamentary logjam, but the Japanese Wind Power Association said it hopes the bill will get reintroduced in the parliamentary session this autumn. Analysts said earlier this SGRE: Japan will be Asias next big offshore wind market year that the bill represents an important first step in promoting large-scale development off the Japanese coast, even though a number of crucial details were still left hanging, such as responsibility for offshore grid transmission links. SGRE earlier this month said it will offer a version of its SG 8.0-167 direct-drive offshore turbine that is adapted to extreme climates, such as typhoons for Taiwan and other Asia-Pacific markets. French floating wind pioneer Ideol and investment group Macquarie are already getting ready for the time floating wind will take off in Japan. In April, the pair signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a commercial-scale floating wind array off Japan, which they said would be a multihundred megawatt project. Poland will also hold a 700MW tender for smallscale projects FROM Front Page co-operation of those two sources can make energy less expensive and cleaner. A different 700MW auction for sub-1MW projects will also be held this year, which is likely to favour solar projects, Kazmierski added. Our system is screaming for PV because of the lack of energy during summer time. The wind sector has welcomed the shift in government policy. Poland has a large pipeline of permitted onshore wind projects seeking a route to market, said Johannes Schiel, head of public affairs at Vestas Northern & Central Europe. The re-establishment of the Polish wind energy market is regarded extremely positively by Vestas. The stall of the market for wind turbines will be overcome in 2019. Bids for the 1GW auction for larger projects will be capped at 350 zloty ($95.80) per MWh for onshore wind, and 420 zloty per MWh for solar, according to industry sources. The total volume to be auctioned off is 45,000GWh for a 15-year period, with awarded capacity depending on the power production of the winning projects. As there are few fully permitted large PV projects, it is likely that onshore wind will win most of the capacity at the 1GW auction, Recharge has learned. 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