Galileo and Gruppo Hope united to create an offshore wind farm planned in Italy. It will deliver 1.5 billion kWh of energy per year

At the end of 2022 Lupiae Maris presented to the Italian ministry of the Environment and Energy Security the documentation for the Environmental Impact Assessment (VIA) to release of the authorization for the construction of 35 wind turbines far from Puglia coast, in the southern Adriatic Sea. The total power supplied by the future wind farm will reach 525MW. In the spring of 2023, the punctual on-site measurement of the wind resource is expected to start. After more than two years of environmental studies and development, the project entirely conceived in Puglia is among the first in Italy to reach such an advanced stage of maturity. The project is supported by the Hope Group, a company with origins and technical-operational base in Bari, and Galileo, the pan-European platform for the development of renewable energies.

Francesco Dolzani, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lupiae Maris and head of development for Galileo in Italy, said: "We have presented the documentation to start the application relating to the EIA of the Lupiae Maris project and we thank the numerous national and international bodies and professionals who, in the last two years, have collaborated on the design using the most advanced technologies in the sector. It is a very important step that fulfills all regulatory provisions for the actual implementation of floating offshore wind technology in Italy. We are open to dialogue and willing to collaborate with the authorities, players in the offshore wind sector and local communities in order to complete all the administrative procedures on time: we expect to build a wind farm that will be able to generate around 1.5 billion at affordable prices of renewable kWh per year, the annual requirement of over 500,000 families”.

Galileo, in the past Galileo Green Energy, is a pan-European platform for development and investment in renewable energy technologies and today it is carrying out a series of photovoltaic, wind and storage system projects exceeding 7 GW in eight countries in Europe. The Hope Group is a new company, with an operational base in Bari, in Puglia, active in the integration of the renewable supply chain with the production of green hydrogen, a driver considered indispensable for increasing the penetration of renewable sources in the electricity market.
The current pipeline under development by the Hope Group already exceeds three gigawatts of power and is consisting of onshore and offshore wind as well as photovoltaic plants with particular reference to plants on disused quarries and agrovoltaics. The two most traditional technologies in the RES world are joined by the production of biofuels through anaerobic digestion processes thanks to agricultural and animal by-products, in which the managers of the group have consolidated experience.