Norway plans to offer one or two sites for the development of floating offshore wind projects.
The ministry of petroleum said it will ask the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate to reassess five areas identified in 2013 as having potential for offshore wind to see if any “significant changes have occurred”.
It added that Enova – an organisation set up by the ministry to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions – is already providing support for floating offshore wind and so there is “no reason to propose new aid schemes”.
Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Søviknes said: “The government’s ambition is to open one to two areas as soon as possible.”
Image: Norwegian company Statoil developed the Hywind Scotland floating project in Scotland (Statoil)
Norway floats offshore plans
Government to offer one or two sites for floating wind demo projects
By EBS