Dutch company Windlife Renewables and its German JV partner WSB are planning to construct and operate the plant in the Murmansk Oblast region of northeast Russia.

Located on the Barents Sea coast, the €280m ($388.6m) project would be Russia’s largest wind farm.

Windlife will take part in forthcoming government tenders in a bid to obtain support, confirmed CEO Paul Logchies.

In May 2013 an amendment to Russia’s federal power law was passed aiming for an additional 5.9GW