Wind turbines float after wind turbines as far as the eye can see towards a blue sea, it is intended to be the world's largest floating wind farm.

And it is a Swedish company that is involved in developing - but not at all in Sweden - but in South Korea. 

- We have been active for several years abroad, and now we are starting to see the right signals in Sweden.

The conditions are starting to take shape for this to be possible in Sweden as well, says Marcus Thor, CEO of Hexicon.

Preparing the application

Hexicon is now preparing applications for several large floating parks for offshore wind power in the Baltic Sea - each with an output corresponding to a nuclear power reactor.

There is a story.

Over 30 years ago, the world's first offshore wind turbine Svante was towed out of Karlskrona.

But then there was silence, and today there are only four offshore wind farms in operation in Sweden, none of them connected to the transmission network. 

But as manufacturing costs have fallen, and onshore wind power encounters more and more resistance, the wind has turned again.

Proposes multi-billion investment

The government has now proposed a multi-billion investment in electricity grid connections for parks all the way out to sea, and 40 applications are already pending - mainly in southern Sweden, where the need for electricity is great. 

Svenska kraftnät is preparing to be able to determine where the connections to the transmission network can be located.

It is guessed that there may be connections for five or six new parks, to begin with.

- We have had a generally increasing application pressure, first on wind power since 2015, and now the offshore wind power has come in on a broad front, says Magnus Danielsson, head of grid development at Svenska Kraftnät.

"Will play an important role in Sweden"

The largest offshore wind player, the state-owned Vattenfall, has also focused on offshore wind abroad for a few years, and at the same time waited almost two decades for a permit for a large offshore park at Krieger's flat outside Trelleborg.

But now the giant also sees a brightening.  

- In 10 to 15 years' time, we see that offshore wind power will play an important role in Sweden.

We have ten times as much volume in project development today as we have built so far in Sweden, says Sandra Grauers at Vattenfall.

Only this autumn will a decision be made on the investment in offshore wind power.