Tyrrhenian Wind Energy is developing a floating wind farm located in the sea near Civitavecchia

Tyrrhenian Wind Energy submitted the environmental impact study in August 2023

The Tyrrhenian floating wind turbine development is a Divento partnership.

Tyrrhenian Wind Energy Location

Location

  • The project is located near the Municipality of Civitavecchia, more than 20 km from the coast.

  • The connection to the National Electricity Transmission Network is planned in the Municipality of Civitavecchia (see map).

Schedule

  • The project is planned for construction in 2030.

Size

  • The project has a capacity of approximately 504 MW enough to power 550,000 homes.

  • The wind farm is composed of 28 floating horizontal axis wind turbines with a power of 18 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 20 km away from the coast of Civitavecchia, making it insignificant to the naked eye from the shore.

  • 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 504MW 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 460,000 tons for every year the project operates.

Key elements in floating offshore wind

Diagram of how offshore wind works

Contact

Tyrrhenian Wind Energy srl- Corso Venezia 5, 20121 Milano