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State procurement of new offshore wind farms continues worldwide, with some countries launching their first tenders and others preparing to open their next offshore wind auctions this year. In this article, we are bringing a selection of news published by offshoreWIND.biz in 2024 about tenders planned for 2025. Malta Launches First Offshore Wind Tender On 5 December 2024, the Maltese government launched the country’s first public call for offshore wind development, seeking to pre-qualify potential developers who will then be invited to participate in the next stage(s) of the tender. The developer selected through the procurement process will build Malta’s first floating wind farm which will have an installed capacity of between 280 MW and 320 MW. Nine Companies File to Qualify for Colombia’s Offshore Wind Tender; DEME, Jan de Nul on List In October 2024, Colombia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy published a list of nine companies that submitted documents to qualify for the country’s first offshore wind tender that will open in the first half of 2025. In its first offshore wind tender, the Colombian government aims to allocate areas where between 1 GW and 3 GW of offshore wind capacity can be installed. The offshore wind projects under the first round are planned to be built mainly in shallow and deep water maritime areas of the departments of Atlántico, Bolívar, southern Magdalena and northern Sucre. Finland to Launch First Offshore Wind Tender in Autumn 2025 as President Enacts New Legislation In December 2024, the President of Finland signed a bill that enables the country to organise its first tender for offshore wind development in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). With the new legislation entering into force on 1 January 2025, the government is looking to launch the first offshore wind tender in the autumn. In May 2024, the Finnish government rejected 16 offshore wind applications in the EEZ, saying that the work on new legislation on offshore wind development was underway and that granting the rights might have had negative consequences on the guiding effects of the new act that was under preparation. The new, now applicable bill, Act on Offshore Wind Power in the Exclusive Economic Zone, will clarify the regulation of projects in the exclusive economic zone, which has been deficient until now, according to Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. |
