The joint venture between Canadian power producer Northland Power and Taiwan-based Yushan Energy have selected Danish contractor Semco Maritime for an engineering study for the 1.04GW Hai Long offshore wind projects off the Changhua area in Taiwan.

The study includes an optimisation of the electrical infrastructure, an assessment of the number of offshore substations, sub-sea cable characteristics, the design of a preliminary offshore substation substructure and topside layout, as well as the onshore substation layout.