Urgent: EnBW open to partnerships in U.S. offshore wind expansion
23/01/2019 15:42
BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - German utility EnBW EBKG.DE
could seek more partners in its planned push into the burgeoning
U.S. offshore wind sector, its chief executive said.
EnBW has already formed a joint venture with project
developer Trident Winds to cater the U.S. west coast but is so
far working alone on the booming east coast, where it has set up
a subsidiary in the fourth quarter.
"We're open to partnerships also in the offshore business,"
Frank Mastiaux told Reuters at the annual Handelsblatt energy
conference in Berlin.
"At the moment, it is very difficult to develop new offshore
wind parks in our home market Germany as well as in the
remaining parts of Europe. We want to continue to grow and are
looking for attractive foreign markets in a very selective way."
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz, Tom Kaeckenhoff and Vera
Eckert, editing by Riham Alkousaa)
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