Sweden approves construction of some 100 offshore wind turbines (updated)
16/05/2023 08:20
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STOCKHOLM, May 16 (Reuters) - The Swedish government has
approved the construction of around 100 wind turbines off
Sweden's west coast in two new wind farms, it said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a news conference
the government had approved state-owned utility Vattenfall's
80-turbine Kattegatt Syd project and OX2's OX2SE.ST around
20-turbine project Galene.
The government said the two projects would have a
combined capacity of around 6.5 terrawatt hours of electricity
per year, enough to cover the needs of around one million
households.
Galene is one of two parts of OX2's larger
Galatea-Galene project.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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