Skyborn kicks off study work for 2.5 GW Pooki overseas wind farm in Finland

Home Offshore Wind Skyborn kicks off study work for 2.5 GW Pooki overseas wind farm in Finland

June 26, 2024, by Adrijana Buljan

Skyborn Renewables has began website examinations in Finland, at a area where the business strategies to construct the 2.5 GW Pooki overseas wind farm, an extension of the previous Suurhiekka job which was likewise being established by Skyborn (wpd at the time).

The work began with bird and subsea acoustic studies at the task website in Bothnian Bay, 25 kilometers overseas, in waters off Oulu, Ii, Simo and Kemi.

The bird researchstudies began throughout the spring migration and will continue at least upuntil the fall migration. The acoustic studies will start throughout the summerseason and will continue upuntil the fall.

The studies will be brought out throughout both 2024 and 2025 and the information gathered will be examined versus information from the previous researchstudies in the location and utilized to assistance the future ecological effect evaluation (EIA) for the task.

Skyborn signed a five-year appointment contract with the Finnish state-owned business Metsähallitus in July 2023, protecting special rights to establish the Pooki overseas wind farm in that timeframe.

Following getting a lawfully binding land usage strategy and a water authorization for the task, the appointment contract offers the designer the unique ideal to continue studies in the location where the business was formerly establishing the Suurhiekka overseas wind job.

The Pooki overseas wind farm is prepared to have inbetween 85 and 185 wind turbines and a optimum output of 2,600 MW.

The quantity of fossil-free electricalenergy produced everyyear is proportional to the yearly production of a contemporary big nuclear power plant, according to Skyborn Renewables.

The Pooki job is anticipated to be finished in the early 2030s.