Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has announced it is launching Copenhagen Energy Islands (CEI), a development company dedicated to developing energy islands globally.
CEI will build on CIP’s offshore experience to develop these sites and is currently developing a project portfolio focused around the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and in Southeast Asia.
Energy islands are offshore hubs enabling the scaling required for next generation offshore deployment, says the company, combining existing technologies at a larger scale that allows for a build-out and integration of offshore wind.
CEI is an independent company majority-owned by CIP and a group of investors, including those from Nordic, European and North American countries with a history of renewable investments, including PensionDanmark, PFA, SEB and Andel.
“Today, the challenge for offshore wind is less about building the incremental offshore wind farm, but more how to integrate large-scale offshore wind energy into the global energy systems,” says Jakob Baruël Poulsen, managing partner and founder of CIP. “We see energy islands as a key tool in solving this challenge and realizing the ambitious offshore wind targets across the globe.”
CEI is headquartered in Copenhagen.
