Fugro will provide Renexia with detailed marine geophysical and environmental surveys and produce a geohazard report (source: Fugro)
Renexia, part of TOTO Holding, has awarded Fugro a contract to conduct a survey of the site for the Med Wind floating windfarm in the Strait of Sicily
Med Wind is one of the largest renewable energy projects planned in the Mediterranean. The 2.8-GW project will use around 190 floating turbines.
Fugro will provide Renexia with detailed marine geophysical and environmental surveys, deploying equipment and personnel to acquire data at the location of the proposed windfarm and along two proposed export cable corridors.
Once Fugro has acquired the necessary data, it will use it to produce a geohazard risk mitigation and identify a safe route for installation of the export cables. These results will also feed into the final integrated environmental impact assessment application to Italy’s Ministry of Energy Transition.
Once operational, the 850-km2 windfarm, which is located 60 km off the Italian coast in water depths of 300 m to 900 m, should provide enough electricity to power 3.4M homes a year.
