South Korean industrial giant Doosan Enerbility will work with Siemens Gamesa and Equinor on the development of a commercial-scale floating wind project planned off South Korea’s south-east coast.
Doosan said on Tuesday (15 October) it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with European turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa and Norwegian oil firm Equinor to cooperate on the 750MW Firefly/Bandibuli floating offshore wind project.
Doosan’s involvement will include making nacelles for 15MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbines earmarked for the project at its manufacturing plant in the southern city of Changwon.
Equinor is developing the Firefly/Bandibuli project off Ulsan city on South Korea’s southeast coast, and owns 100% of the project. It recently secured the right to connect the project to the Korean grid.
The fossil fuel firm developed and already owns the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in the 88MW Hywind Tampen project that powers its oil and gas extraction efforts in the North Sea.