The area has already attracted interest from developers before the offshore wind zone was identified and officially declared.
Energy Estate has proposed a floating offshore wind farm of up to 1.65 GW , on whose early development the company worked with BlueFloat Energy, which later unveiled a 1.7 GW floating wind project of its own in the waters off the Hunter.
In 2022, Equinor and OceanEx announced that they intended to jointly submit feasibility licence applications for offshore wind acreage for three of these projects in Australia, including for a 2 GW wind farm offshore Hunter Valley.
Earlier this year, EDF Renewables said that it had acquired the Newcastle Offshore Wind (NOW) floating wind project that was under development by Newcastle Offshore Wind Energy Pty Ltd (NOWE) and was planned to be developed in stages to ultimately reach 10 GW in generation capacity.
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