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RWE has obtained a feasibility license from the Australian Authorities to develop an offshore wind farm close to the Kent Group islands within the Bass Strait, off the Gippsland coast in Victoria. This location is Australia’s first designated offshore wind zone.
This license grants RWE an unique 7-year seabed proper to develop the Kent Offshore Wind Farm challenge. It additionally permits RWE to use for a business license to construct and function the wind farm for as much as 40 years.
The awarded lease space has the potential to host a wind farm with a capability of as much as two gigawatts (GW), adequate to energy roughly 1.6 million Australian houses with inexperienced electrical energy. Positioned about 67 kilometers off the coast with common water depths of 59 meters, the wind farm is predicted to grow to be operational within the early 2030s, topic to the planning and approvals course of, secured offtake, and grid connection. Sven Utermöhlen, CEO of RWE Offshore Wind, mentioned, “Australia is a really enticing progress marketplace for renewable power. RWE has been lively within the nation for 10 years and operates considered one of Australia’s largest photo voltaic farms. By securing unique seabed rights within the Bass Strait off Gippsland, we at the moment are getting into the Australian offshore wind market and can convey our greater than 20 years of expertise on this subject. With the Kent challenge, we are going to work on creating one of many first offshore wind farms off the Australian coast. That is according to our technique to develop our renewables portfolio in Australia and the broader APAC area.”
