Vestavind Offshore says the 350MW Havsul project off the country’s northwestern coast will not go ahead for the foreseeable future because the current support regime is inadequate to make offshore wind viable.

Chairman Wenche Teigland claims the situation in Norway has changed since the company was granted consent for the project in 2009.

At that stage he says layoffs in the oil and gas sector created a consensus in the country that alternatives to fossil fuel-based industries were needed.

Teigland