Last month, the South Wind SRL company received a technical approval for connection (ATR) for a large wind farm of almost 290 MW to be located in Constanța County, in the area of the Cerchezu-Dumbrăveni towns in the south of Constanța County, according to e-nergia.ro.

The new wind farm would be connected to a new 400 kV station, Deleni, and subsequently to the 400 kV line Medgidia Sud-Varna and Medgidia Sud-Dobrudja.

According to Termene.ro data, the South Wind SRL company is fully owned by the Swedish company OX2, an active investor in renewables in Romania in this second wave, present on the market here since 2021.

At the end of February, OX2 Romania announced that at the end of last year it had obtained the construction authorization for the most advanced project in the portfolio, with an installed capacity of 99 MW and which has a connection contract from March 2023. The works will start in the first part of the year, and the objective is for the wind farm to become operational at the end of 2025. The project is in the advanced phase, which includes the purchase of equipment and the conclusion of a PPA, the target being to reach the final investment decision (FID – final investment decision).

The second 99MW project, located nearby, follows close behind in both development stage and reaching the FID phase, with the two projects to be built and commissioned in the same timeframe.