The Swedish multinational power company and the Finnish seaport put their pens to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Windenergy Hamburg 2024 to investigate the latter's suitability in the development of offshore wind energy (OWE) projects of the former off Finland's coast.

"Signing this memorandum of understanding with the Port of Kaskinen is an important step for the Korsnäs project [1,400 megawatts of capacity], as it outlines the potential collaboration between the project and the port. This includes the potential use of the port for the logistics and construction of the wind farm, as well as the operation and maintenance of the wind turbines," highlighted Klaus Nissen, Project Director at Vattenfall.

Patrik Hellman, the Port of Kaskinen's CEO, added, "We are glad to be able to sign this MoU with Vattenfall. The Korsnäs wind farm is very close to Kaskinen and therefore we see it as a very important step to collaborate with Vattenfall. It will enable us to proceed with the planning for offshore wind farm projects in all directions with stakeholders and co-operatives. Such a project like Korsnäs will be a major positive impact for the region and the port and would create hundreds of new job opportunities."

Photo: Port of Kaskinen