Danish contractors Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime have set the seal on a partnership deal with Kaohsiung-headquartered shipyard owner CSBC to build offshore substations for wind projects off Taiwan.
Few details of the agreement were released beyond plans for a “close collaboration” between the three partners to support CSBC’s “ambitions of participating in the local offshore wind market”.
“We want to be an important player in the Taiwanese offshore wind market, and we know that with a strong and reliable partner in Taiwan that has great experience in the fabrication of complex steel structures, our trio will be able to reach new heights in the offshore wind sector,” said Bladt senior vice president Lars Kristensen.
Carsten Nielsen, vice president of Semco, added: “Semco and Bladt have developed a leading position over the last 15 years in the market for offshore transformer stations in Europe, which in partnership with the market leading shipyard in Taiwan forms a very strong constellation without equal.”
Foung-Tang Lin, executive vice president of CSBC, noted: “We see it as a major strength that, together with the two leading suppliers from the European market, we are now establishing ourselves in the rapidly growing Taiwanese offshore market.
The Taiwanese government only last week firmed plans for a higher offshore wind target of 5.5GW by 2025, the chief executive of Danish offshore leader Orsted said today during a conference call.
In October, Taiwan had already signaled plans to raise its goal for wind at sea from the 3GW previously targeted, with economy minister Shen Rongjin saying Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy plans to announce the goal as part of a “mixed tariff” strategy for development in the country.
