Renexia, through its subsidiary Renext Solutions, has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with Aker Solutions to design the underwater substations for Med Wind, a floating wind farm project in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Trapani, Italy.
The agreement involves the design of eight modules, two for each section of the Med Wind park, to be laid on the seabed of the Strait of Sicily, at depths between 520 and 660 metres, into which the cables of the plant's floating turbines will be conveyed. The energy produced will then arrive on land, at the Partanna and Partinico power stations, via a system of submarine and land-based cable ducts. Aker Solutions will work in close cooperation with its alliance partner ABB. Med Wind will be developed in several stages and, once fully operational, will be able to produce about 9 TWh per year of clean energy.
