The 24-month program will offer recent graduates immersive training, learning, and mentoring across the offshore wind project value chain, growing the next generation of experienced talent and leaders around the world.

September 22, 2022 – Copenhagen

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), a global leader in offshore wind development and construction, has launched its Global Graduate Program, a full time, two-year professional development initiative to upskill and train ambitious individuals for a career in the booming offshore wind industry. Seventeen participants were selected following a competitive application and review process which saw more than 750 applicants apply.

As governments around the world look to offshore wind to reach their clean energy and climate ambitions, there is growing demand for skilled and experienced professionals to support these projects. COP is committed to help develop this talent base and has established the Global Graduate Program which will offer participants an unparalleled training and learning experience working alongside some of the industry’s top leaders.

‘’As COP continues to secure offshore wind projects around the world, we are acutely aware of the need to build the global talent pool,’’ said Jytte Svensen, Head of People. ‘’Our new Global Graduate Program will give aspiring offshore wind professionals the necessary hands-on experience to thrive in this fast-paced and complex industry. I can’t think of a better place to learn the ropes than with our COP team.’’

The recent graduates and early career professionals entering the Global Graduate Program are from diverse backgrounds and will receive a customized career experience that combines the graduate’s interests with COP’s organizational needs. The 17 Graduates have commenced their training in six COP offices, including Boston, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Milan, Seoul, and Taipei. 

COP’s success developing offshore wind projects is due to its agile structure and transferrable global talent who can bring their experience to new markets; therefore, over the course of the two-year Global Graduate Program, participants will go through three rotations across strategic business functions. Unique to the program, the third and final rotation of six months offers Graduates the opportunity to identify a business function and location at one of COP’s 12 global offices, where they will complete their graduate journey before joining the company in a permanent position.

COP is excited to welcome its first cohort of Graduates around the world:

• I-Hsin Cheng, Boston
• William Ross, Boston
• Phillip Van, Boston
• Bao Ho Ngoc Gia, Copenhagen
• Lindsay Heenan, Copenhagen
• Ignacio Domingo Herrero Heras, Copenhagen
• Emmanouil Stavrakakis, Copenhagen
• Miracle Antobre-Seinuah, Edinburgh
• Adrian Francis, Edinburgh
• John-Joe Nelson, Edinburgh
• Luigi Piroddi, Milan
• Elia Tiberi, Milan
• Yekaterina Shestakova, Seoul
• Sangwoo Son, Seoul
• Yelin Sung, Seoul
• Changhyun Yoo, Seoul
• Tsu Ning Teng, Taipei

The program will welcome a new cohort each year with applications for the 2023 Graduate Program opening early next year.

For more information about the Global Graduate Program, visit: https://cop.dk/graduate-program/

 

About Copenhagen Offshore Partners

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is a world leader in development and construction of offshore wind projects with a track record of successfully taking projects through the most difficult phases and delivering per plan. COP works exclusively for one of the leading green infrastructure fund managers in the world, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), which has raised DKK 133 billion to date from more than 120 international institutional investors worldwide. COP is developing projects in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia, and is supported by its headquarters in Denmark and offices in the United Kingdom, France, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the United States, Australia, Vietnam, Greece, Brazil, and Italy. COP is a proudly independent company owned by its management.

COP Korea’s offshore wind development activities recognized for unlocking region’s industry expertise, supply chain development, and pathway for Danish businesses to provide products and solutions to new renewable energy markets.

August 26, 2022 – Copenhagen

Today, Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) Korea, a global leader in offshore wind development and construction, received the HRH Crown Prince Frederik International Business Award for its Export Achievements in South Korea and the East Asian market including Taiwan where 2 projects have entered the construction phase. Since entering South Korea, COP has secured exclusive rights to develop six offshore wind projects totaling 2.4GW (900MW of which were secured together with its local partner), a pipeline that has demonstrated the opportunity and laid the groundwork for Danish companies, known for their leadership and commitment to sustainability, to bring their services abroad.

This is just the third time the awards have been presented. Established in 2020 as a collaboration between the Danish Export Association, the Royal Danish House, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the awards recognize Danish companies abroad that present an outstanding effort to promote sustainable Danish products, services and values worldwide.

COP Partner and Korea Co-CEO, Jesper Krarup Holst, and David Taeseung Yoo, COP Korea Co-CEO, said, “We are very honored and proud to receive the HRH Crown Prince Frederik International Business Award on behalf of the entire Copenhagen Offshore Partners Korea team. We literally have a tailwind in Korea, where we, together with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ green energy funds, have succeeded in positioning ourselves and Danish offshore wind as a significant player in the green transition in East Asia, thereby creating the basis for both Danish export success and jobs.”

COP’s offshore wind development activities are supported through its exclusive partnership with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the world’s largest fund manager of greenfield investments in green energy infrastructure. In addition to COP and CIP’s six projects already underway, the groups are awaiting approval for eight more projects from the Korean authorities. These projects will further support South Korea and the East Asian market’s clean energy economy and contribute to South Korea’s goals to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, be among the world’s five leading offshore wind countries, and establish green jobs across the country.

Beyond South Korea, COP is actively developing projects in Asia Pacific where the group has established local offices in Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and Australia. COP is honored to receive the HRH Crown Prince Frederik International Business Award alongside other Danish leaders including Novo Nordisk France and Troldtekt Deutschland.

About COP

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is a world leader in development and construction of offshore wind projects with a track record of successfully taking projects through the most difficult phases and delivering per plan. COP works exclusively for one of the leading green infrastructure fund managers in the world, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), which has raised DKK 133 billion to date from more than 120 international institutional investors worldwide. COP is developing projects in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia, and is supported by its headquarters in Denmark and offices in the United Kingdom, France, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the United States, Australia, Vietnam, Greece, Brazil, and Italy. COP is a proudly independent company owned by its management.

A company with the best experts within the offshore wind industry!

Congratulations to Bjarke Koch, Chris Little, Claire Lohan, Clemens Kappeler, Ernst Soons, Frank Rijnja, Fraser Stalker, Fredrik Lund, Fridrik Rafn Isleifsson, Isaac Connell, Jung Bin Park, Khanh Quoc Duong, Kristian Pallesen, Lena Marie Biester, Lise Lotte Lyck, Logan Sullivan, Ludovic Blunat, Mads Mohr Madsen, Magne Fahrenholz, Rebecca Marshall, René Sejdenfaden, Richard Copeland, Samuel Wheeler, Søren Ranneries, Tae Hyun Kim, Thorbjørn Lund-Poulsen, Verónica Rivera, and Vilius Vaisnoras!

 

 

 

 

The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Demonstrator (Demo) has been awarded £9.6m of UK Government funding to develop and demonstrate a suite of UK-manufactured innovative floating wind technologies for the first time.

January 26, 2022 – UK

The Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstrator Programme funding provided through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio will help accelerate technologies to support the roll-out of large-scale floating offshore wind projects by driving down lifetime operational costs while creating manufacturing and supply chain opportunities for UK companies.

Richard Copeland, Project Director said: “The Pentland Demo project is a great opportunity to demonstrate new technologies which will accelerate the cost reduction and industrialisation of floating offshore wind in the UK.

“With this funding we will deploy several innovative technologies developed here in the UK by local companies. This provides a fantastic opportunity for our supply chain partners to showcase their capabilities and scale-up towards our 100 MW Pentland Array project and for large commercial-scale deployment through ScotWind projects and other floating wind opportunities in the UK and globally.”

Technologies to be developed and demonstrated for the first time answer the FOW Demonstrator Programme’s key challenges. They include:

• A narrow footprint mooring system using nylon mooring lines – this will unlock shallow water floating offshore wind sites, reducing a site’s overall footprint and costs, and enabling greater co-existence with other sea users.

• Higher capacity dynamic cable protection and ancillaries – this will enable the connection of next generation floating wind turbines, reducing cost by optimising design.

• Floating assembly methodology – using modular industrialised components with the floating structure assembled in the UK.

• Digital twin and advanced monitoring system –creating a state-of-the-art digital twin of a floating offshore wind turbine, developed using UK digital technology.

The Pentland Demo, located off the North coast of Scotland is majority owned by Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through one of its Copenhagen Infrastructure (CI) funds. It is the first stage of the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm project and will showcase new floating wind technology with high localisation ahead of the larger Pentland Array. Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is managing the project’s development activities on behalf of CIP.

The innovation project in receipt of the funding will be led by a joint team from COP’s Global Floating Offshore Wind Competence Centre in Edinburgh along with experts from SSE Renewables.

This funding announcement follows the success of CIP and its consortium partners SSE Renewables and Marubeni Corporation in the ScotWind leasing round, securing rights to develop what will become one of the world’s largest floating offshore wind farms off the east coast of Scotland.

 

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About Copenhagen Offshore Partners

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) conducts offshore wind development activities on behalf of the funds managed by CIP. COP is a leading and experienced provider of project development, construction management and operational management services to offshore wind projects.  The company is headquartered in Denmark and has offices in UK, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Southern Korea and Vietnam. 

The virtual public consultation event for the Pentland array project is available online until 31 October 2021. More information and access to the event can be found here: https://pentlandfloatingwind.com/

About Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) is a fund management company focused on energy infrastructure including offshore wind, onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity and storage, and other energy assets like Power-to-X.

CIP has offices in Copenhagen, Hamburg, New York, Tokyo, Utrecht, Melbourne and London. CIP was founded in 2012 by senior executives from the energy industry in cooperation with PensionDanmark. CIP manages eight funds and has approximately EUR 16 billion under management.

 

Exciting to see the ScotWind success of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and their consortium partners SSE Renewables and Marubeni Corporation today.
 
The announcement of the ScotWind results marks a historic moment for the growth of offshore wind in Scotland, cementing the country’s position as a global sector leader.
 
This comes just over a year after we launched our Floating Wind Competence Centre in Edinburgh. Scotland’s strong maritime heritage and history of innovation makes it the ideal place to start our growing global floating wind ambitions and support CIP’s global floating pipeline. We are developing this centre in collaboration with the local industry to establish a base of Scottish floating wind expertise which can be harnessed domestically and internationally.
 
Over the past 12 months, we’ve built a strong team and we’re looking to continue this growth in 2022 and beyond, recruiting for skills across a range of roles. This will support us in the development of the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm. This is a key steppingstone project to growing the local supply chain’s expertise and experience ahead of the ScotWind development phase.
 
Our Centre in Edinburgh will benefit from our rapidly growing international presence – we now have offices in Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Copenhagen, Australia, the USA, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam – by sharing and transferring knowledge and lessons across these development hubs.

Learn more about the CIP, SSE Renewables and Marubeni ScotWind announcement here: https://bit.ly/SSE-Marubeni-CIP-ScotWind

Taiwan’s most significant offshore windfarm!

The Zhong Neng Project reaches financial close with a NTD 4.5bn funding, today December 8^th, 2021.

The process for reaching financial close on the ZN project started 14 months ago and the large-scale offshore wind project will now be financed through CI IV, CSC and loans for a consortium of 20 banks.

Zhong Neng, is a 298MW offshore wind project off the coast of Taiwan and will provide approx. 300,000 households in Taiwan with clean energy. The construction will kick off in 2023.

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has been involved in the project organization throughout the development of Zhong Neng, and we will continue our involvement in the construction phase of the project.

A big congratulations to Joris Hol, CEO of the Zhongneng project, and team – what an achievement!

Copenhagen Offshore Partners are happy to announce the hire of Morten Hesselager Pedersen as new EPC Project Director for the realization of the Danish Energy Island. Morten will be leading the EPC activities within VindØ, a consortium consisting of CIP, PensionDenmark, PFA and Andel and with Nykredit as partner. Morten Hesselager Pedersen is leaving the prestigious Tyra-project, for TotalEnergies, in the North Sea, to join COP and to assume the responsibility for construction work in connection to VindØ’s bid on the new Energy Island in the North Sea.

The Energy Island is an artificial island in the North Sea, 100 kilometers west of the coast of Jutland. This will be the biggest construction in Danish history and will deliver up to 10GW of wind. 

CIP vælger Tyra-chef til prestigeprojekt: “Hvem har ikke lyst til at bygge en ø?” (energiwatch.dk)

 

On November 30 Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Investors in the Vindø Consortium, Andel, Pension Denmark and PFA, announced the selection of Njord Group to jointly develop and prepare a bid for the Energy Island in the Danish North Sea.

Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has supported the establishment of the partnership and is honored to manage the EPC activities in the project on behalf of CIP and its investors. COP looks forward to work with CIP, the Vindø Consortium and Njord Group to realise the world’s first energy island and unlock the rapid and unprecedented build-out of global offshore renewable energy to fight climate change.

The energy island in the Danish North Sea will be located on the west coast approx. 80-100 kilometers from shore.

https://cipartners.dk/2021/11/30/cip-secures-world-class-global-contractor-group-for-the-worlds-first-energy-island-project/