The Swedish government has granted permission to Vattenfall and OX2 to build two offshore wind projects. Vattenfall received approval for its 1.2 GW Kattegatt Syd offshore wind farm, and OX2 for the northern, 400 MW part of its Galatea-Galene project.

OX2’s and Ingka Investments’ Galatea-Galene offshore wind project consists of two sub-areas located in Kattegatt, about 25 kilometres outside the cities of Falkenberg and Varberg, both in the Swedish county of Halland. The entire development is planned to have 101 wind turbines and a capacity of up to 1.7 GW, and to be built and operated without subsidies.