BW Ideol und Tohoku Electric haben eine formelle Vereinbarung unterzeichnet schwimmende Offshore-Windparks im großen Maßstab vor der Küste Japans zu bauen.

(WK-intern) – Die beiden Unternehmen beabsichtigen, sehr eng zusammenzuarbeiten, um durch dieses Projekt in der Präfektur Iwate zur frühen Kommerzialisierung von kostengünstiger schwimmender Offshore-Windenergie in Japan beizutragen.

Floating offshore wind power in Japan

BW Ideol (Chief Executive Officer: Paul De La Guérivière) and Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (President: Kojiro HIGUCHI) are pleased to announce that both companies have signed a formal agreement and initiated the feasibility studies necessary to jointly develop a commercial-scale floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Kuji city, Iwate prefecture; project based on BW Ideol’s proven and patented Damping Pool® technology.

The two companies intend to collaborate very closely to contribute to the early commercialization of cost-competitive floating offshore wind power in Japan through this Iwate prefecture project.

BW Ideol is a global leader in floating offshore wind with a fast-growing pipeline of commercial-scale projects in all its strategic markets including close to 1GW to be developed in the northeast of Scotland within the framework of the ScotWind tender. BW Ideol’s technology also equips a full-scale floating wind turbine in France (Floatgen) and Japan (Hibiki) in operation since 2018. Paul De La Guérivière, CEO of BW Ideol, commented : “We’re pleased and honored to join forces with a leading Japanese utility such as Tohoku EPCO and to further contribute to the advancement of floating wind power in Japan. Japan is a very promising market where we have a strong local presence and recognition and where we have been co-developing numerous projects for several years now. This agreement comes just a few months after our ScotWind tender success and confirms the merits of our dual-leg growth strategy as asset co-developer and as floater technology provider. Our teams are already hard at work and are determined to successfully develop this project.“

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. is one of the major Japanese utility companies founded in 1951. Under the Tohoku Electric Power Group Carbon Neutral Challenge 2050, it will accelerate CO2 emissions reductions by maximizing use of renewable energy and nuclear power; decarbonizing thermal power sources; and realizing a smart society. Focusing on renewable energy development, it announced the target of developing 2GW of capacity, centered on wind power, chiefly in the six Tohoku prefectures and in Niigata Prefecture. The company currently participates in numerous projects, including onshore and offshore wind power as well as solar power, among other proactive initiatives in this field.

Toshinori SHIRATO, General Manager of Tohoku Electric Power, commented “We are pleased and honored to start the feasibility study at the Iwate prefecture together with BW Ideol who has abundant experience as well as technical expertise in the floating offshore wind industry. As our motto “yori, sou, chikara” describes, we will continue working hand-in-hand with local communities with our founding motive of serving as a bedrock for the region.”

About BW Ideol
BW Ideol is a leading fully integrated platform in floating offshore wind with more than 10 years of experience from design, execution and development of floating wind projects based on Ideol S.A.’s patented floating offshore wind technology and engineering capabilities. The company has a dual-leg growth strategy as a floater EPCI and maintenance services provider and as a wind-farm project developer and co-owner. BW Ideol has two full-scale offshore floating wind turbines in operation in France and Japan, a significant project pipeline incL 1 GW under development in Scotland, and is supported by BW Offshore’s extensive experience from developing and operating offshore energy production systems.

About Tohoku Electric
Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. is one of the major Japanese utility companies founded in
1951, managing and operating over 16GW of generating capacity. Together with its subsidiaries, it generates, transmits, and distributes electricity throughout mainly Tohoku region, which comprises the seven northernmost prefectures of Japan’s main island of Honshu (Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata).
The company’s electricity sales in fiscal year 2021 amounted to 84,064 GWh. As of March 2022, its total generating capacity is 16,690 MW, which is composed of thermal (11,299 MW), nuclear (2,750 MW), hydro (2,447 MW), and renewable (194 MW), including geothermal and solar.

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