UK plans to launch two new offshore wind farms

Total gets closer to winning the nomination to install the UK's largest floating offshore wind farm, while RWE can now get started developing an approximate half-gigawatt now that the Crown Estate has issued permits.
Photo: Principle Power
Photo: Principle Power

Oil supermajor Total's ambitions within offshore wind have just taken another step toward realization. The UK's Crown Estate, the British royal family's statutory company that administers crown assets such as the UK's seabed, has just issued project developer Blue Gem Wind, in which the French giant previously purchased an 80-percent stake, an offshore wind site license. Here, the developer plans to install the 96 MW Erebus floating wind farm roughly 50 kilometers off the Welsh coast of Southwestern Britain.

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