The port\u2019s own forecasts for future electricity consumption show a multi-fold increase in the need for power. The farm will be able to generate renewable electricity corresponding to the current electricity consumption of all of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world\u2019s major ports will become energy hubs and centres for the manufacture of hydrogen gas and e-fuel for maritime traffic. The Port of Gothenburg\u2019s strategy is to lead the green transition of maritime traffic, but this position will not come about without some effort,\u201d said Elvir Dzanic, CEO of the Gothenburg Port Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccess to green electricity will be entirely crucial for the port\u2019s development and competitiveness. Investing in offshore wind power is therefore a strategic decision for us.\u201d <\/p>\n
Spiralling demand<\/strong><\/p>\n There is already a severe deficit in electricity generation in the region, as countries are experiencing, and demand for electricity is expected to double by 2035.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this situation, we must do everything we can to ensure the port\u2019s access to green electricity,\u201d said Mr Dzanic.<\/p>\n The V\u00e4stvind windfarm is planned to have an installed capacity of 1,000 MW, with the potential to generate 4 to 4.5 TWh of renewable electricity per year. <\/p>\n \u201cV\u00e4stvind could play a key role in western Sweden\u2019s ambitions of becoming northern Europe\u2019s centre for the electric vehicles and battery manufacture of the future and the world\u2019s most climate-smart port logistics,\u201d said Per Witalisson, CEO of Eolus.<\/p>\n \u201dAccess to green electricity is a decisive issue in this regard. In practice, offshore wind power is the only source of energy that can contribute such large amounts of new electricity generation in the timeframe up until 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n The partnership means that Gothenburg Port Authority will acquire 5% of the shares in the project company that owns V\u00e4stvind and Eolus will remain as the owner of 95%.<\/p>\n Eolus plans to submit the permit application for the V\u00e4stvind windfarm with the accompanying environmental impact assessment to the Land and Environment Court and the Government in 2023. Start of construction is planned for 2027 with completion for 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gothenburg Port Authority is to become a partner in Eolus\u2019s V\u00e4stvind offshore wind power project in order to fulfill its future energy demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[148,1024,1026,238,174,1025,337,1023],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-energy","tag-eolus","tag-green-electricity","tag-port-of-gothenburg","tag-renewables","tag-vastvind-offshore-windfarm","tag-wind-power","tag-windfarm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}