IKEA invests in Baltic Sea offshore wind totaling up to 9GW

The Swedish company’s investment arm is buying 49% if three OX2 projects, thereby stepping up competition to develop Swedish offshore wind among incumbents like Ørsted.
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Photo: Vattenfall
BY MAZ PLECHINGER, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL FRANK CHRISTENSEN

One of the tools enabling the green energy transition is apparently the Allen key. In any case, IKEA’s parent company, the Ingka Group, has now taken one step further toward expanding the furniture supplier’s sustainability profile after having purchased a 49% stake in compatriot developer OX2’s three Swedish offshore wind projects, Galatea-Galene, Triton and Aurora – a triplet that could get as big as 9GW.

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