RES grows offshore presence in Asia

The agreement, signed on June 3rd, outlines the principle arrangements of future cooperation between the two businesses, including upcoming large scale South Korean offshore wind projects. Blue Wind Engineering Co., Limited, the RES representative in South Korea will support both RES and DOHWA.

The partnership will see RES providing offshore marine project management expertise along with specific package management support. In return, DOHWA will employ RES as its supplier of choice for offshore consultancy. The new partnership will see DOHWA Engineering benefiting from RES’ offshore wind knowledge from working on projects in Europe and the USA and RES benefiting from DOHWA Engineering’s local consultancy expertise. The agreement will cover the whole of South Korea.

Kevin Todd, RES Offshore Business Development Manager, Asia said:

“By working with DOHWA, we believe the RES contribution will significantly strengthen DOHWA’s EPC offer to the South Korean offshore wind market."

"RES sees the Far East region as the fastest growing new sector in offshore wind and are keen to share our experience of working in offshore wind projects with the new sector. Finding local partners is important to facilitate our expansion in the region; DOHWA are a large successful business wishing to also move into Offshore Wind."

Todd continues:

"Korea and other major Far East countries see the importance of investing into the offshore wind industry to diversify their energy mix and meet CO2 targets. The industry in this region is just starting and RES will be at the forefront providing our expertise and knowledge from over 15 years in the offshore industry.”

SunRae Kim, Vice President, DOHWA Engineering Co. – Chief of Power Plant Division said:

“As a leader of consulting services in Korea for the renewable energy sector, we are veryconfident that the cooperation with RES will lead to great opportunities for our business. RES has leading edge technologies for offshore wind farms, therefore providing us with the concrete opportunity of acquiring the upcoming large scale offshore wind farm - the first-ever development in Korea. Our cooperation will then be continued and developed in future projects, leading tomutual prosperity and success.”

For more information on this partnership, talk to RES at Global Offshore, stand 134.