Ocean Winds & Electrobras Offshore Brazil, Venterra Acquires Oceanscan

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

In this episode, we discuss Ocean Winds and Electrobras' new partnership to develop offshore wind projects in Brazil, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' strategic alliance with Stiesdal Offshore, and Venterra Group's acquisition of Oceanscan to strengthen offshore wind services. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comWind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Welcome to Uptime News Flash. Industry news, lightning fast. Your hosts, Allen Hall, Joel Saxum, and Phil Totaro discuss the latest deals, mergers, and alliances that will shape the future of wind power. News Flash is brought to you by IntelStor. For market intelligence that generates revenue, visit www. intelstor.com. Allen Hall: Ocean Winds and Electrobras have announced a new partnership to develop offshore wind projects in Brazil. The collaboration, revealed at Brazil's WindPower 2024, combines Ocean Winds offshore wind development expertise with Electrobras position as a leader in Latin American energy. Ocean Winds currently manages about 18. 5 gigawatts of offshore wind projects globally. and has registered 15 gigawatts of wind projects across multiple Brazilian states. Now, Phil, OceanWind has been pretty aggressive in hooking up with other places to develop offshore wind. Brazil makes imminent sense. Philip Totaro: Well, it does, as long as they get their act together on how they're going to run their auctions and how the lease areas that they've identified are actually going to be kind of tendered out because they've allowed multiple different organizations to submit bids and, and layouts for, for offshore wind farms. They're still getting some of their site assessment data figured out and they don't have any kind of regime established like they do for onshore wind as far as the, the power offtake auctions are gonna transpire and, and how that's all gonna work. So there's, there, it's still kind of a relatively, Immature market with a huge amount of potential. There's I think something like 140 gigawatts of projects that have been proposed down there at this point including those by Ocean Winds, which would now presumably involve Electrobras. So they're hoping to be able to leverage, this utility power offtake as a means to get their projects hopefully to the the front of the queue. Joel Saxum: Like Phil said, as long as they can get some of the regulatory and politics and the PPA stuff figured out, they're in a good place. Because not only do they have great wind resources, Brazil knows how to operate in an offshore environment. They've been doing offshore oil and gas there for many, many, many years. So, Port facilities, work boats, all those things exist down there, and as does a mariner economy to boot. So, they build their own vessels, they do all kinds of great stuff in Brazil. They'll be able to support the offshore wind market from a technical and operations standpoint. Easier than some of the emerging offshore markets will have. Allen Hall: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has formed a strategic alliance with Stiesdal Offshore, acquiring a minority stake through its Copenhagen Infrastructure Partnership. Five Fund. The partnership focuses on driving innovation and cost efficiency in floating offshore wind technology. Stiesdal Offshore plans to expand its services from design and development of floating foundations to becoming a comprehensive provider of floating win...