The government of the United Kingdom today announced the successful bidders for an offshore wind development program estimated to be worth £75 billion.
The following companies will develop nine different sites for a combined total of at least 25 gigawatts (GW) of capacity by 2020 in an effort to help the nation reach its 15% renewable energy goal.
- Moray Offshore Renewable
- SeaGreen Wind Energy
- Forewind Consortium equally owned by each of SSE Renewables, RWE Npower Renewables, Statoil and Statkraft
- Siemens Project Ventures and Mainstream Renewable Power
- East Anglia Offshore Wind equally owned by Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall Vindkraft
- Eon Climate and Renewables UK
- Eneco New Energy
- RWE Npower Renewables and Centrica Renewable Energy and involving RES Group.
Britain already leads the world in the deployment of offshore wind with installed capacity of 700 megawatts (MW) and another 1.2 GW under construction.
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