Ichnusa Wind Power

Located ~35 km off southwestern coast of Sardinia, Carbonia-Iglesias region. Grid landfall and connection planned at Portovesme industrial area.

Status
Proposedlifecycle stage
Ownership
CICopenhagen Infrastructure Partners — 50% 
GRGreenIT — 50% 
Location
Italy
Mediterranean Sea
Technology
Capacity 504 MW  Turbines 42 × 12 MW  Foundation Floating 
Site & conditions
Site rights Not established we have not found a document granting or refusing rights over this seabed — a gap in our research, not a finding about the project 
Water depth 210–307 m  Distance from shore 35 km  Wind speed 7.4 m/s @ 150 m 
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Grid No agreement  Connection Grid landfall planned at Portovesme industrial area, connection … 
Schedule
FID Not taken
COD · developer

Delivery outlook not forecast

We don't put a delivery estimate on this project yet. No authority has granted rights to this site, so there is nothing to date a schedule from. That changes the moment the seabed is awarded, a consent application is filed, or the project is named in an auction.

Revenue & offtake route to market — open

No offtake secured — route to market open
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
Italy first dedicated offshore auction (FER2 offshore contingent)
expected 2027 · planned · the round’s published documents do not name this project
stated by industry at Seanergy (May 2026) after informal MASE–Commission talks — strike-price revision by end-2026, auction "at the latest in 2027"; no MASE notice

Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers

Installation not started
nothing to count yet: the satellite tracker begins when offshore construction does
Installation · on record
StageProposed
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated

Sources & verification

6/16 fields verified · rests on 10 sources (3 primary) · ◆ 5 documents held
VerifiedModelledSourcedInferredConventionUnverifiedNo source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator4
[1]
Copenhagen Offshore Partners2023-06◆ Copenhagen Offshore Partners | Ichnusa W…
“504MW floating project planned approximately 35 kilometers off the coast of Sardinia. The project's owners, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners through its Flagship Funds, and GreenIT, the joint ventur…”
supportsTotal capacityFoundationDistance from shore
[2]
Copenhagen Offshore Partners2023-06◆ Copenhagen Offshore Partners | Ichnusa W…
“submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Ichnusa Wind Power Project to the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (MASE). 504MW floating project planned approximately 3…”
supportsConsentTotal capacityFoundationDistance from shore
[4]
Saipem2025-03-05◆ Saipem and Divento sign collaboration ag…
“Ichnusa Wind Power is a project that will be developed by the namesake company about 40 km from the south-western coast of Sardinia, with a capacity of 504 MW and a yearly production of about 1.6 TWh …”
supportsTotal capacity
[6]
Copenhagen Offshore Partners2024◆ Copenhagen Offshore Partners | Ichnusa W…
supportsinvestorowner
Auction pipeline1
[10]
reNEWS2026-05-20◆ renews-seanergy-fer2-strike-2026-05
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsItaly first dedicated offshore auction (FER2 offshore contingent)
Trade press5
[3]
Divento2025
“The project will have a capacity of approximately 504MW ... 42 floating horizontal axis wind turbines with a power of 12 MW each ... off the coast of the Carbonia Iglesias region in the Sea of Sardini…”
supportsTurbinesUnit capacityTotal capacityFoundationStatus+2 more
[5]
Offshore Wind Biz2025-09-24
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsTurbinesUnit capacityDistance from shore
[7]
Global Energy Monitor2026-07-02
supportsCoordinates
[8]
GEBCO Compilation Group2020
supportsWater depth
[9]
DTU Wind Energy / World Bank (Global Wind Atlas)2026
supportsMean wind speed