Patrick Gilly, who until March 2020 was the Managing Director of Total E&P Denmark and since then has had his own consultancy, will join Ramboll on 1 September in a position as director of one of Ramboll’s energy divisions.
Ramboll has been contracted by CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd. (CLP Power) as the owner’s technical engineer and advisor for the pre-development phase of their Hong Kong Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
Ramboll is gaining momentum on the Asian offshore wind market. The Danish engineering company has secured five new contracts for offshore wind farms located in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea, and opens new office in Tokyo to secure a more permanent footprint in the region and serve its clients better.
The two offshore wind farms Aflandshage and Nordre Flint are part of Denmark’s green transition and Copenhagen’s ambition to become the world’s first CO2-neutral capital by 2025. In total, the two wind farms will result in a CO2 reduction of 75,000 tonnes and cover the power consumption of more than 400,000 households. Ramboll has been selected as the Owner’s Technical Engineer and turbine foundation consultant.
Ramboll will provide high-level support to the VindØ consortium on master-planning the world’s first artificial energy island, VindØ, which is expected to be realised by 2030.
A pilot-test of Ramboll’s True Digital Twin technology at the Wikinger offshore wind farm has revealed a significant analytical potential to increase lifetime of offshore wind. The pilot-test is part of the ROMEO project, an initiative supported by the EU research programme Horizon 2020 that aims at advancing the energy transition in Europe and reduce the costs of offshore wind energy.
In Japan, growth on the offshore wind market is rapidly increasing, and with this new contract Ramboll will strengthen its position as market leader. Ramboll engineers will perform the detailed foundation design for a new offshore wind farm, which will be one of the largest in Japan.
Denmark-based Ramboll has been chosen by the US energy company Dominion Energy to support development and engineering aspects of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which will become the largest offshore wind farm in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
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