Denmark Sets Up Rules for Thor Offshore Wind Farm

The Danish Energy Agency has published the rules for their next offshore wind tender: The offshore wind farm will be called Thor after the city Thorsminde in western Jutland. it will have an installed capacity of at least 800 MW, but a flexibility is included in the tender so the winner of the tender will have the possibility of installing up to 1000 MW in total.

The grid connection from the wind farm to the onshore point of connection will be included in the scope of the tender. The Danish TSO Energinet has previously been responsible for constructing and operating the offshore substation and the export cables and financed the cost over the tariffs. This task will now be the responsibility of the winner as part of the scope of the project and it will be financed together with the overall subsidies for establishing the wind farm.

Thor will be tendered through tender with negotiation like in the previous Danish offshore wind tenders. This method of tendering has allowed potential participants in the tenders to influence the tender conditions which for example has ensured the most optimal sharing of risk and has helped to achieve low bid prices over time in the Danish offshore wind tenders.

Further information concerning the tender will be included in the prior information notice which is expected to be published in the middle of 2019.