Offshore staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) says a floating lidar has been deployed for the Ichnusa wind power project offshore Sardinia to monitor the site’s wind and wave conditions.
COP is leading the development for the project’s owners, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners through its Flagship Funds and GreenIT, co-owned by Plenitude (Eni) and CDP Equity.
Akrocean is managing the floating lidar campaign, said to be the first for an offshore wind project in Sardinia. Monitoring will continue for 12-24 months; the retrieved data will assist design of Ichnusa’s foundations, cables and wind turbine generators as well as helping to protect the local environment.
Italy’s National Research Center CNR will have additional equipment on the buoy to support research and reporting activities in the Mediterranean, including monitoring via underwater camera of microplastics in the water column.
Ichnusa is a planned 504-MW floating offshore wind development about 35 km from the coast of Sardinia. It is part of a near-3-GW, floating portfolio COP is leading development for in Italy. Others include the 500-MW Tyrrhenian project off the coast of Civitavecchia, west-central Italy; the 500-MW Nurax and 1,000-MW Poseidon projects, also offshore Sardinia; and the 250-MW 7SeasMed off the coast of Marsala, Sicily.
06.22.2023
