Samsung Heavy Industries, a Korean
shipbuilding company, is going to build a large-scale offshore wind farm in Jeju
island with Korea Southern Power Corporation (KOSPO), which is a state-run
company.
The shipbuilding company formerly announced
that it obtained an order from its special purpose company (SPC) to build 12 units of 7-megawatt (MW)
offshore wind turbines.
Earlier in September, SHI has a partnership
with the KOSPO and established an special purpose company (SPC), namely,
Daejeong Offshore Wind Power.
According to SHI, they have plans to finish the construction by the end of 2014
and start commercial operation from 2015.
During the contract, they will be
responsible for the entire process including engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, as well as test
operation of wind turbines and wind turbine foundations.
In the meantime, as advanced economies have
been striving to enlarge the use of new renewable energy sources, the wind
power market has an enormous potential in growth.
The European market for offshore wind power
generation, especially, is projected to more than double from $13.5 billion
(3.3 gigawatt, or 3.3 GW) in 2012 to $30 billion (7.3 GW) in 2020.
With the aim of tapping the rapidly growing
European market, the ship manufacturer
decided to install a 7 MW wind power turbine for test operation in Scotland in
January this year and isigned a contract to establish the power grid system in
the region to sell electricity produced from the wind farm. Afterwards, SHI
built an engineering center in Hamburg, Germany in July to facilitate
development of new technologies.
P.S. this post was referred to the article that Maeil
Business Newspaper wrote.
http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?year=2012&no=664611
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