Danish>Wind Turbines to breathe new life into doomed shipyard.
One of the country's oldest industrial sites is closing but will now get a new injection of jobs from an offshore wind turbibe project
Odense Steel Shipyard has got its first post-closure project in place in the form of an offshore wind farm project, reports financial daily Børsen.
Wind turbine producer Vestas is pegged to provide the foundations for the project, which is expected to create 1,100 jobs for the area. Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which currently owns OSS, is scheduled to close down its operations there sometime in 2012.
With a total budget of around 80 million kroner, energy testing company Lindø Offshore Renewable Centre is behind the plans to install technologically advanced foundations for offshore wind turbines at the 93-year-old shipyard northeast of Odense.
LORC is aiming to be one of Europe’s largest centres for the testing, demonstration and research into technology promoting the harvesting off offshore renewable energy. Much of the funding for the project is being provided by Technical University of Denmark and the High Technology Foundation.
Former prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is the LORC’s president, and he believes the Lindø project will help ensure the country’s position as a world wind power leader.
‘Both the climate and thousands of jobs are at stake, so it’s important that Denmark maintain its leading position in the wind turbine industry and win the race for the future offshore market,’ Rasmussen said in a press release.
Wind turbine foundations make up as much as half of an offshore wind farm’s total costs, according to Rasmussen.
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