UK wind at sea winners

摘要

SUPERMAJORS BP and Total have joined established players from the power sector as winners in the UK's first leasing round for wind at sea in a decade. Seabed landlord the Crown Estate this week named preferred bidders for six project leases representing almost 8 gigawatts of capacity for wind farms designed to help propel the UK to its target of 40GW of offshore wind in place by 2030, four times the current total. The winning projects include 3GW across two projects for German power giant RWE in the Dogger Bank region, and a 1.5GW project in the southern North Sea for a consortium of Green Investment Group and Total. They also include 3GW across two project sites in the Irish Sea for a consortium of BP and German utility EnBW and 480 megawatts off Anglesey for a joint bid between Spanish group Cobra and Flotation Energy.