Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is a Danish leader in offshore-wind origination, development and construction that works exclusively for fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). It opened a Porto office in February 2023 to lead early development of Nortada — a proposed 2 GW floating offshore wind project off Figueira da Foz, positioned to be Portugal’s first large-scale offshore wind farm.
COP opened its Portuguese office at Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque in Porto in February 2023, under market director Afonso Cesar Machado, to run early market assessment and development for the Nortada project — a proposed 2 GW floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Figueira da Foz. Nortada sits within the multi-gigawatt areas identified by the Portuguese government for offshore wind and has been publicly linked to a potential investment of around €8 billion, positioning it as the country’s first large-scale offshore wind development.
COP develops projects exclusively for Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, one of the world’s leading green-infrastructure fund managers, and runs a global portfolio of more than 50 GW across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, of which over 40% is floating wind — the technology suited to Portugal’s deep Atlantic waters.
If Nortada advances to construction it would rank among the largest Nordic-linked investments ever made in Portugal, anchoring a floating-wind supply chain around Figueira da Foz and the northern ports. COP’s Porto office is the operational beachhead of that Danish capital in Portuguese waters.
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