Big guns win UK Round 3 offshore wind zones

A who’s who of major wind power developers has won licences from the UK's Crown Estate to develop massive offshore projects, which are earmarked to supply 32 GW of electricity, equivalent to a quarter of the UK’s demand.

The winners include Spanish wind power giant Iberdrola, German utilities RWE and E.ON, Portugal’s EDP Renovaveis (EDPR), UK utility Centrica, and Scandinavian utilities Statkraft and Vattenfall, as well as other big developers like Mainstream Renewable Power and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) Renewables, and engineering firm Siemens. However, Denmark’s Dong, another major offshore player, does not figure on the list of winners.

As expected, the Forewind consortium made up of SSE Renewables, RWE, Statoil and Statkraft won the licence for the biggest zone, Dogger Bank, with a potential of 9GW, while Iberdrola’s…

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