Galileo and Hope Group have launched Barium Bay, a joint venture dedicated to developing floating offshore wind in Italy’s Adriatic Sea.
The project, which will carry the same name as the joint venture, will be positioned over 40 kilometres from the shoreline, spreading from Barium to the north of Barletta. Barium Bay has been designed with 74 wind turbines of 15 MW each and will have a target capacity of 1,100MW. The joint venture is currently completing the necessary environmental and technical studies with the objective of filing its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application within summer 2023. In parallel, the JV will begin a 24-month wind measurement campaign at sea together with Eolos Floating Lidar Solutions.
