Blue H Technologies BV has filed a preliminary application with the Malta Environment and Planning Authority to install 30 wind turbines off the coast of Pembroke.

It has emerged that the company will be testing the waters 20 kilometers off the coast of Pembroke where it plans to build a deep water offshore wind farm. Last year, the firm had indicated about its interest in building a wind farm in Maltese territorial waters.

In its application filed with the Authority, according to TimesofMalta.com, the company has mentioned that its plans are based on the new technology it is developing in Italy which, it says, will allow for the installation of turbines in depth of over 50 metres. They will have a life span of about 20 years after which they will be dismantled.

Blue H is planning to develop turbines that will be set up in two phases. Six turbines, with 21 mega-watt rated power, would be set up in the pilot phase. This would be followed by an extension phase of 24 turbines with a rated power of 84 megawatts, totalling 30 turbines with 105 megawatt rated power.

To its credit, Blue H installed the world’s first floating wind turbine prototype in the summer of 2008 in the Strait of Otranto, opposite the municipality of Tricase in Puglia, Southern Italy. The company is currently building the first operational 2MW unit in Brindisi, which it expects to deploy at the same site in the Southern Adriatic Sea in 2009, the first in the planned 90 MW Tricase offshore wind farm, located more than 20 kilometers distant from the coast line of Puglia.