Nurax Wind Power is developing a floating wind farm located off the northeast coast of Sardinia

The Nurax floating wind turbine development is a Divento partnership.

Nurax Wind Power Location

Location

  • The project is located approximately 35 km from the northeast coast of the Sardinia.

  • The connection to the National Electricity Transmission Network is planned in the Olbia region (see map).

Schedule

  • The project is planned for construction in 2030

Size

  • The project has a capacity of approximately 462MW, enough to power 550,000 homes.

  • The wind farm is composed of 33 floating horizontal axis wind turbines with a power of 14 MW each.

  • The project is estimated to create approximately 3,250 regional jobs during the construction phase.

Innovation

  • The floating wind turbine technology utilizes a floating platform as a support structure, allowing the wind farm to be built far from the coast to avoid interference with the landscape, fishing, and other coastal activities.

  • The project benefits from technological and logistic synergies with the other offshore wind initiatives managed within the same partnership and from the broad technical and operational capability of the project partners.

Environmental impact

  • Thanks to the floating support structure of the turbines, it was possible to position the wind farm in waters more than 35 km away from the coast of Sardinia, making it substantially imperceptible to the naked eye from the mainland.

  • Exact positioning was carefully chosen having verified its compatibility or non-interference with all areas considered important due to environmental, landscape, economic or other constraints.

Energy Security and Decarbonization Contribution​

  • The project is 462MW with a yearly production of around 1.5 TWh of renewable energy, will be enough to satisfy the electricity consumption of around 550,000 households, contributing to the decarbonization objectives of the 2030 National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan.

  • The total CO2 prevented will be 500,000 tons for every year the project operates.

Key elements in floating offshore wind

Diagram of how offshore wind works

Contact

Nurax Wind Power srl- Corso Venezia 5, 20121 Milano