The project with the large wind farm out in the sea three miles south of Trelleborg was already started in 2002.
Twenty years later, in 2022, the then S government gave a building permit for the park. But then there was still a lack of permission from the government for the company to lay cables along the seabed to connect the park to the main grid.
First project in a long time
Now Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari announces that the government is giving the green light for the underwater cables. The decision will be taken during a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
– Now we are happy to be able to make this decision. It is an important step that Krieger’s flak can be started in the southern Baltic Sea, she tells TT.
The park includes 35-50 wind turbines that will be 280 meters high instead of 170 meters, according to Vattenfall. The state-owned company estimates that the park, if everything goes as planned, can be put into operation in 2028.
No offshore wind power project has been commissioned in Sweden since 2013.
Shared by three countries
The ground on which Krieger’s plane rests is shared between the economic zone of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Since 2015, the German wind turbine has been there. In the Danish zone, a wind farm was ready in the summer of 2021.
The Swedish part of the wind farm is estimated to be able to produce around 2.6 TWh per year, which according to the company corresponds to electricity for around 500,000 homes.
– It is a fantastic addition given the situation we are in, says Pourmokhtari.
Several conditions
The government’s permission for the cables comes with several conditions, such as that Vattenfall must take into account the marine environment and any archaeological remains on the seabed.
Vatten fall has previously said that the permits for the project took far too long. This is what was said in one of our previous reports: