Ichnusa Wind Power is developing a floating wind farm located off the coast of the Carbonia Iglesias region in the Sea of Sardinia
The Ichnusa floating wind turbine development is a Divento partnership project.
Ichnusa Wind Power Location
Location
- The project is located off the coast of the Carbonia Iglesias region in the Sea of Sardinia approximately 35 km from the coast.
- Landfall and connection to the National Electricity Transmission Network is planned in the industrial area of Portovesme (see map).
Schedule
- The project submitted the environmental impact study in April 2023.
- The project is planned for construction in 2029.
Size
- The project will have a capacity of approximately 504MW, enough to power 600,000 homes.
- The wind farm will be composed of 42 floating horizontal axis wind turbines with a power of 12 MW each.
- The project is estimated to create approximately 3,500 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 Ichnusa project is 504MW with a yearly production of around 1.7 TWh of renewable energy, will be enough to satisfy the electricity consumption of around 600,000 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
Contact
Ichnusa Wind Power srl- Corso Venezia 5, 20121 Milano
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