Equinors
Dudgeon project
off the UK
New investment
in ports could
save 5.3% on
offshore LCOE
CHRISTOPHER HOPSON
Equinor and Petrobras to build
offshore wind projects in Brazil
ANAMARIA DEDULEASA
Photograph Equinor
B
razilian oil group Petrobras
and Norways Equinor have
signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) to jointly
develop offshore wind projects in
Brazil.
No investment or capacity plans
were detailed, but the partners
expect to spend two years
identifying and assessing potential
projects before moving towards
construction, said Equinor Brazil
president Anders Opedal, while
announcing the MoU during
the Rio Oil&Gas conference on
Wednesday.
Brazil has great potential for
renewable energy. We want to
understand how our expertise
can contribute to the generation
of offshore wind energy in the
country, the way we are doing in
Europe, Opedal said.
We will use our vast expertise
in offshore, and combine the
technology of oil & gas with
existing offshore wind technology.
Engineers who are used to
working in oil & gas will now use
their skills to develop offshore
wind farms.
Equinor, which has pledged to
invest 15-20% of its annual capital
expenditure in renewables by
2030, is already advancing plans
to replace some gas turbines at the
Snorre and Gullfaks platforms in
the North Sea with floating wind
power to reduce CO2 emissions.
Nelson Silva, Petrobras director
of strategy, said: Now that some
of the financial problems of
Petrobras have been resolved, we
are starting to look towards the
future. And this partnership with
Equinor is very complementary to
our skills and ambitions.
Petrobras has four onshore wind
farms in the state of Rio Grande
do Norte, totalling 104MW,
and a PV energy research and
development plant in Rio Grande
do Sul North, where the potential
of four technologies is being
evaluated.
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Investments of €500m-€1bn in
some of Europes key wind ports
could reduce the levelised cost of
energy (LCOE) for offshore wind
by 5.3% by 2030, according to
figures released yesterday by the
WindEurope Ports Platform.
The upgrading, redesigning
and adapting of ports will allow
developers to work with larger
turbine components, larger vessels
that can complete installation
faster, and allow the consolidation
of O&M teams at dedicated hubs
all of which would help to
reduce costs.
New port facilities are
also needed for the annual
decommissioning of 750MW of
turbines that are due to reach
the end of their working lives
between now and 2030, said
the Ports Platform, a group of
Europes major ports serving the
wind industry.
With offshore wind turbine
components getting larger and
installation volumes going up
theres a need for new investments
in infrastructure, said
WindEurope chief executive Giles
Dickson. These investments will
help the offshore wind sector to
cut costs, and will help ports to
attract new business activities.
Wed be keen to see new
public-private partnerships and
the allocation of existing EU
funds to make this happen.
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