BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group are excited to announce that they are partnering to develop offshore wind farms in New Zealand. The partnership brings together complementary skills and experience to accelerate the offshore wind sector in New Zealand.
Today we launched “Haumoana – New Zealand Offshore Wind Capacity Building”, a report which highlights New Zealand’s untapped potential for offshore wind development and the opportunities to establish a local supply chain as well as create enduring employment in the sector.
Offshore wind partnership
The partnership brings together BlueFloat Energy, a leading offshore wind developer with a global pipeline of projects, with Energy Estate, a developer of renewable energy and green hydrogen projects in Australia and New Zealand, and Elemental Group, one of the pioneers in the offshore wind sector in New Zealand. We have appointed a country manager, Jarek Pole, to help accelerate our activities in New Zealand. BlueFloat Energy and Energy Estate have also partnered to develop offshore wind projects in Australia.
Carlos Martin, CEO of BlueFloat Energy said: “Offshore wind is emerging as one of the key solutions to climate change crisis as it can decarbonize global economies quickly and at scale. Additionally, it can prove pivotal in revitalizing coastal communities and placing energy generation close to consumption centres.”
New Zealand has world-class offshore wind resources and is well placed to benefit from the falling cost of offshore wind. This new competitive source of electricity complements perfectly the existing hydro, geothermal, and onshore wind assets. Offshore wind can accelerate New Zealand’s progress towards achieving its net-zero targets and contribute towards the decarbonization of other sectors, such as transport and agriculture.
Simon Currie, co-founder of Energy Estate commented “I witnessed first-hand the rapid development of the offshore wind industry in Europe. Our goal is to bring the lessons learned from around the world to a New Zealand setting and develop an industry that creates enduring benefits for the iwi and all stakeholders. A good example of our approach is exploring the opportunities to foster green hydrogen and e-fuels industry that harnesses the fantastic winds across New Zealand to decarbonize domestic demand and export green fuels to the world.”
Key messages from Haumoana, New Zealand Offshore Wind Capacity Building report
This report is the first in a series of capacity-building and enabling activities including sponsoring the NZ offshore future energy forum being held this week in New Plymouth. We are committed to developingtheNZoffshorewindindustryinacollaborativeandtransparentway. The report includes contributions from a range of viewpoints, and we are very grateful for the support from Minters, DLA Piper, UTS (Sydney), and German Perez Gaido.