TotalEnergies has multi-gigawatt offshore wind plans in Denmark

TotalEnergies, the France-headquartered oil and gas and energy major, has multi-gigawatt offshore wind plans in Denmark. There, the company is eyeing the development of a minimum of 1.3 GW and a maximum of around 5.8 GW of offshore wind through two projects.

According to the latest information from the Danish Energy Agency (DEA), TotalEnergies has submitted proposals for two wind farms through the country’s “open door” scheme for procuring offshore wind projects.

The first project proposed to be built by TotalEnergies, called Thybo I, is planned to have between 3 GW and 4 GW, while the second one, Thybo II, would have an installed capacity of between 1,320 MW and 1,760 MW.

The two developments are among nine in the gigawatt-scale that DEA received.

The Agency currently has 27 applications on its list, which is dominated by projects proposed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), European Energy, and Andel.

From 4 April to 30 June 2022, the Danish Energy Agency received 43 applications, of which 16 have been rejected due to overlap with state land reservations of areas that Denmark will put to tender in its dedicated offshore wind auctions.

The up to 5.8 GW of offshore wind in Denmark are the latest in a series of headlines featuring TotalEnergies’ plans in this energy sector: from the recently announced massive offshore wind plans in Brazil, securing lease rights in the biggest offshore wind lease sale organised in the U.S., being awarded seabed rights in Scotland, to filing a bid in the latest Dutch offshore wind tender together with Ørsted.

The company is a provisional winner of the recently held Carolina Long Bay offshore wind lease sale in the US, where it also plans to participate, together with partners, in the floating wind lease sales offshore California and Oregon.

Earlier this year, the developer also entered into a partnership with the Polish state-owned mining corporation, KGHM, to participate on a 50/50 basis in the Polish government’s tender for the development of offshore wind projects.

TotalEnergies currently has the 1.1 GW Seagreen offshore wind farm under construction in Scotland and is working on the Outer Dowsing project in the UK for which it won the development rights last year.

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