Minesto has signed a long-term lease agreement to secure port access and onshore operations and maintenance work site to support tidal energy projects.
The agreement, struck with the Vestmanna municipality and Faroese utility company SEV, grants access to a 2,050-square-metre site in the inner harbour of Vestmanna, Inni a Fjord, including a new grid connection.
Site preparations have been completed and installation of the control station and maintenance infrastructure has been initiated.
This site will accommodate the O&M hub for tidal energy production at the existing site in Vestmannasund, and the planned buildout of commercial tidal energy arrays in Hestfjord and Skopunafjord.
“The location of the Inni a Fjord site is well suited for our ongoing and planned large-scale operations – it is sheltered, close to our site in Vestmannasund, and large enough to accommodate service of the planned kite arrays nearby. We gain obvious synergies by co-locating our operations at this site,” said David Collier, COO at Minesto.
“In constructive collaboration with Vestmanna Kommuna and SEV, we have now secured an operations site that is suitable to both install and operate the first two 30MW sites in nearby fjords, as well as support the Vestmannasund production site already in operation,” added Dr Martin Edlund, CEO of Minesto.