Horns Rev 3 windfarm notice for tender

The DEA says that to enhance the competitiveness for bidding on the project, the only criterion in selecting the winner will be price.

“The contract notice for Horns Rev 3 marks an important milestone in our efforts to create more competition to build Danish offshore wind farms and attract new capital for the green transition in Denmark,” said Climate, Energy and Building Minister, Martin Lidegaard.

Horns Rev 3 will be able to supply the needs of some 400,000 households and is the first to boffshore windfarm to be constructed as a result of the Energy Agreement of 2012.

The agreement stipulated that power capacity at sea needed to be more than doubled by 2020. The other parks in the Energy Agreement, the 600 MW Krieger’s Flak in the Baltic and the combined total of 450 MW of coastal parks, will be put out to tender during 2014.

The requirements for prequalification have been customised to create more competition and bring new players and financial institutions to the Danish market. The DEA says that there are now more relaxed requirements for financial and economic capacity in comparison to the last bidding process undertaken for the Anholt offshore windfarm in 2010.

More tender specifications will be published in early 2014 and will include the draft concession agreement. The deadline for applying for pre-qualification is 23 April 2014.