The Port of Esbjerg is looking to develop a multi-purpose fabrication facility to build either wind turbine blades, nacelles, towers or turbine foundations for the offshore wind market from 2025.
The port authority has drawn up plans to build a fabrication hall on a 230,000 square-metre site owned by the port and currently home to an Orsted-operated coal generation facility that is due to be decommissioned in 2023.
“We are looking for an investor to help build a large, flexible facility which clients can lease to produce parts for the offshore wind industry,” Esbjerg Port chief executive Dennis Jul Pedersen told reNEWS.
“The site will have significant quayside storage space, good water depths for berthing vessels and is positioned on the doorstep of the North Sea, which could be home to over 100GW of offshore wind in future,” he said.
Current designs for the site are based around a 350 x 170 metre fabrication hall, 700-metre-long load out quay, storage area, gantry crane and car park.
Clients leasing the facility will need to install their own fabrication equipment inside, Pedersen said.
“There has already been significant interest from investors and the market in our plans for this,” he added.