Norway Approves Applications for Two Floating Wind Projects

Norway Approves Applications for Two Floating Wind Projects

Norway’s Ministry of Energy reports that it will award two project areas in the Utsira Nord region off the coast of Stavanger after having reviewed t...

Windtech International - Norway to award Utsira Nord floating wind areas to Equinor, Vårgrønn and Harald Hårfagre

The Ministry of Energy in Norway has evaluated the two applications for project areas for floating offshore wind in Utsira Nord and confirmed that each applicant will receive an individual area. Both applications met the qualification requirements and provided satisfactory responses to the qualitative criteria. As a result, each group will be awarded one project area.

Norway appoints two teams for 1.5GW of floating wind power - Global Construction Review

Sector hails early appointments as Norway eyes 30GW of offshore wind power by 2040. Norway today approved two consortia to develop 1.5GW of floating offshore wind farms off Utsira in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway. The decision was supposed to have come in the first half of next year, but only two joint ventures applied to develop three designated project areas, so the Ministry of Energy accepted them, saying both met the qualification r…