Five groups qualify for Norway offshore wind tender (updated)

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16/02/2024 06:27

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       COPENHAGEN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Five of the seven groups
that sought to take part in Norway's first commercial wind farm
tender have been approved to take part in the auction that
starts on March 18, the country's energy ministry said on
Friday.
    The five groups are a consortium between Aker Offshore Wind,
BP and Statkraft, one between Equinor and RWE, Energie
Baden-Wurttemberg, a joint project proposed by Shell, Lyse and
Eviny and a cooperation between Parkwind and Ingka.
    Chinese wind turbine maker Mingyang Smart Energy failed to
qualify, as did the company Hydroelectric Corporation. The
ministry did not say why the two were left out.
        The tender offers the opportunity to build bottom-fixed
wind turbines in the North Sea with a capacity of 1.5 gigawatts
(GW), in what Norway hopes will be the starting point for
massive offshore power developments in the years leading up to
2040.
  
        Shell 
    said
     this week it has not yet decided whether to bid in the
auction.
  

 (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik and Anna
Ringstrom)
 ((stine.jacobsen@thomsonreuters.com; +45 21 56 90 10;))