Monday, April 28, 2025

Principle Power Signs MoU with Shipyard HSG Sungdong to Advance Manufacturing of WindFloat® Floating Wind Foundations in Korea

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Precept Energy has signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HSG Sungdong to cooperate on engineering developments for mass manufacturing and meeting of WindFloat® applied sciences. The settlement furthers the event of a sustainable home provide chain in South Korea and helps the nation’s ambition to attain 14.3 GW of offshore wind capability by 2030.

Lúcio Rodrigues, Head of Provide Chain, and Procurement for Precept Energy stated:

“Principle Power collaborates with partners globally to help them prepare for the serial manufacturing and delivery of WindFloat® foundations. Through this agreement, we will provide HSG Sungdong with high-quality inputs on WindFloat® design, specifications, and lessons learned to support their efforts to optimize their facilities and processes for the fabrication and assembly of floating wind foundations cost-effectively and at scale.”

“With Principle Power’s extensive global track-record and operating experience in floating wind, and HSG Sungdong’s formidable manufacturing capabilities, we are working together to build optimized delivery scenarios for floating wind projects in Korea and export markets that use local expertise and existing shipyard capabilities.”

“Our goal is to foster a robust and sustainable supply chain ecosystem through early engagement with select suppliers to build readiness for the timely and effective delivery of floating wind projects. These engagements are an extremely important part of building a new industry the right way, providing customers and government with confidence about deliverability.”

Jinsang Lee, Chief Government Officer for HSG Sungdong stated:

“This MoU between HSG Sungdong and Principle Power targets the world’s first mass-production of floating offshore wind substructure by combining the strengths of both companies.”

“The goal of the two companies is to establish a supply system ready to deliver industrial scale floating offshore wind projects by combining the technological experiences of 75MW floating offshore wind farm that Principle Power has already implemented globally and HSG Sungdong’s optimized manufacturing facilities (substructure fabrication, marshaling yard, integration) with excellent manufacturing technology.”

“This collaboration is expected to create an optimal process to stably mass supply the most leading floating offshore wind structures with both quality and economic feasibility to the schedule that customers want. It is also to create social values in line with the transition to low-carbon and green economies and deliver the highest quality floating substructures to customers to play their own role in developing eco-friendly solutions for our future industries.”

“Lastly, HSG Sungdong and Principle Power will work together as one team to transform the substructure production paradigm in the offshore wind market.”

To realize its 14.3 GW offshore wind aim, the Korean authorities has applied an annual public sale system providing fixed-price contracts for offshore wind tasks that features REC multiplier mechanism designed to assist launch a home floating offshore wind business. Authorities auctions are scheduled for Q3 2024 for the primary floating tasks in Korea. Builders and the provision chain are dedicated to establishing floating offshore wind capability supplied that off-take award circumstances are supported by sensible value ranges and nationwide insurance policies and rules enable tasks to progress on a predictable schedule.

About Precept Energy

Precept Energy is a pure play international know-how and providers firm for the floating wind vitality market. The corporate’s confirmed WindFloat® product portfolio – consisting of the WindFloat T and WindFloat F – is unlocking offshore wind potential worldwide by enabling tasks to reap the most effective wind useful resource, no matter water depth or seabed situation. Precept Energy acts as a trusted accomplice to builders, impartial energy producers, utilities and EPCs, supporting its prospects all through all the lifecycle of their tasks. With 75 MW of capability already in operation, Precept Energy is now guided by its “300×30” industrialization imaginative and prescient to ship 300 floating wind generators by 2030, propelling the business into the gigawatt scale period. The corporate has secured exclusivity to provide WindFloat® know-how to commercial-scale tasks in all key floating wind markets totaling 10 GW of tasks below design contract.
For extra data, go to www.principlepower.com

About HSG Sungdong

HSG Sungdong is a confirmed as knowledgeable firm specialised in shipbuilding/offshore wind energy/plant within the international market. It has been evaluated as a high tier within the maritime area for greater than 20 years and has optimum infrastructure for manufacturing offshore wind substructures. Particularly, it has the newest facility gear corresponding to 1,190,000m2 yard, 2km quayside, and huge roll bending machine(110 Thickness Manufacturing capability) specialised in offshore wind substructure fabrication, and a wealthy shipbuilding expertise of about 270 ships. HSG Sungdong will even play a number one position in eco-friendly future industries within the belief of consumers with emphasis of efforts for innovation, security, and sustainability. Not too long ago, HSG Sungdong is quickly rising as a robust choice within the offshore wind energy market, accountable for options associated to offshore substructure fabrication and integration of world corporations.
For extra data, go to http://www.isungdong.com/

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