Denmark-Copenhagen: Wind farm

In March 2012, the Danish Government entered into an energy agreement with all but 1 of the political parties in the Danish Parliament. With the support of a broad majority of the members of the Danish Parliament the agreement secures the needed investments for a further step to improve Denmark's production of renewable energy. By the agreement and the later agreement on growth from June 2014, the parties have decided to initiate a tendering process covering the installation of offshore wind turbines totaling approx. 1 350 MW, i.e. 400 MW at Horns Rev 3, 600 MW at Kriegers Flak, and 350 MW in near shore areas. A prior information notice was published in the Official Journal of the European Union for the first 2 offshore wind farms on 22.2.2013 and for the near shore areas on 26.9.2013.This tender covers only the wind farm named Kriegers Flak to be situated in the Baltic Sea close to the border of Sweden and Germany and close to the German offshore wind farm Baltic 2. Further information is available at www.ens.dk/offshorewind under ‘offshore wind tenders’. The coordinates for the pre-investigation area are listed in the technical project description for Kriegers Flak available at the mentioned website.As part of the tender preparation, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has conducted a technical dialogue in the beginning of 2015. A short summary of the outcome of the discussions is also available at the mentioned website. The contract will be awarded as a concession contract. The tender procedure is planned to be conducted according to the following preliminary timetable: Draft of the full tender specification (i.e. the tender documents), early October 2015. Deadline for application for pre-qualification is 1.10.2015 (see section IV.2.2). The deadline for submitting the preliminary tender is 5.4.2016. Shortly after this, negotiations with the tenderers will be conducted. The final tender specification will be published mid-June 2016. The deadline for the final tender is 8.11.2016. Soon after, the concession contract