Port Talbot central to FLOW energy hub for Celtic Sea

By: Mark Casey 11/12/2023 BW Ideol

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BW Ideol teams up with ABP in Port Talbot on floating foundation industrialisation for the Celtic Sea. This agreement has been signed in preparation for the Celtic Sea leasing round announced by The Crown Estate offering a market of significant multi-GW development potential.

Port Talbot is ideally located as a manufacturing base for BW Ideol’s leading technology. Port Talbot is the only port in the Celtic Sea with the scale – both in terms of marine and brownfield land space availability – and technical capabilities to fully maximise the Celtic Sea supply chain opportunity and the jobs and prosperity benefits that it should produce.

ABP is the owner and operator of the port at Port Talbot and 20 other ports around the United Kingdom. ABP has the ambition to invest over £500 million to transform Port Talbot into a major Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) hub.

It would act as a ‘hub’ for a wider network of ports.

“We can’t wait to start working with ABP at Port Talbot and we have no doubt that it will confirm that our patented concrete floating solution, which is the most compact and scalable solution on the market, is manufacturable at a large scale and will be able to equip future installation sites in the Celtic Sea while providing the highest level of local content.

“We have already demonstrated it in Scotland where we have developed fabrication methods able to provide floaters for the equivalent of 1GW per year” said Paul de la Guérivière, CEO of BW Ideol.

Andy Reay, ABP Head of Offshore Wind, said: “We are delighted to be working with BW Ideol to understand the technology needed to turn Port Talbot into a thriving FLOW energy hub.“

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Port Talbot central to FLOW energy hub for Celtic Sea

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