BP looking for to construct wind farms off Scotland
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(Reuters) – BP (NYSE:) Plc is making ready to bid for the rights to construct wind farms off Scotland, The Occasions reported https:// early on Monday.
BP Chief Govt Officer Bernard Looney advised The Occasions the agency was taking a look at bidding within the forthcoming Crown Property Scotland public sale to lease the seabed off Scotland for offshore wind tasks.
Bids for the ScotWind course of, providing 17 areas spanning 8,600 sq. km (3,320 sq. miles) of seabed, are but to be finalised with a deadline of July 16, The Occasions reported.
BP is engaged on bidding collectively for the Scottish leases with EnBW Energie Baden Wuerttemberg AG, the German regional utility it partnered with on its first transfer into Britain’s offshore wind market in February within the Irish Sea, The Occasions report mentioned.
In February, BP gained two websites representing a complete of three gigawatts (GW) collectively with EnBW, in what Bernstein analysts known as a “extremely contested race”.
It goals to ramp up renewable energy technology from 3.3 GW at current to 50 GW by 2030, whereas slashing oil output to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions.
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