Spanish company Capital Energy has signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the Astican and Zamakona shipyards in the Canary Islands to provide facilities for the development of floating offshore wind projects.
Under the five-year MoUs, the two yards will make port facilities available to Capital Energy for the manufacture, commissioning and launching of floating foundations and mooring systems, the assembly of the turbines and the storage of components.
Astican and Zamakona will also take charge of the necessary offshore logistics during the construction phase, such as the transport of personnel and materials, surveillance boats and flotels.
The duo may provide operation and maintenance services.
Capital Energy chief executove Juan Jose Sanchez said: “We try to reconcile our contribution to the progressive decarbonization of the economy, through the implementation of renewable energies, with the promotion of the economic and social development of all the territories in which that we operate, as evidenced by the signing of these agreements with such relevant Canarian companies that they will serve to promote our project in the offshore wind sector.”
Astican president and CEO German Suarez said: “In our shipyards we not only want to contribute and participate in the decarbonisation of maritime transport, executing changes and improvements in the existing fleet of ships so that it complies with the demanded requirements of environmental sustainability, but also, due to our industrial capacity, our experience of decades in the naval sector and our strategically located infrastructures, we will also be an essential link in the value chain involved in the construction, assembly, and installation of any fixed or floating structure dedicated to the generation of energy based on the sea.”
Zamakona Yards Islas Canarias chief executive Alvaro Garaygordóbil said: “Zamakona Yards is 100% committed to training, digitisation and decarbonization in our shipyards.
“With all this we will be able to carry out any future commitment related to renewable energies. I think it will be a great step for the industrial evolution of the Port of Las Palmas.”
Capital Energy is looking to develop a portfolio of several GW of on- and offshore wind farms in Spain, including up to 750MW of floating wind.