The
project
company
Beatrice
Offshore
Wind
Ltd
(BOWL)
–
owned
jointly
by
SSE
(75%)
and
Spanish
oil
giant
Repsol
(25%)
–
narrowly
beat
Mainstream
Renewable
Power’s
Neart
na
Goithe
project
to
the
punch,
with
the
latter
expected
to
submit
its
application
imminently.
The
Beatrice
project
will
see
as
many
as
277
turbines
installed
in
Scotland’s
outer
Moray
Firth,
some
11km
beyond
the
Beatrice
demonstrator
project,
where
two
REpower
5MW
machines
have
been
spinning
since
2007.
The
project
is
slated
to
begin
construction
in
2014
and
become
fully
operational
by
2017.
However,
in…
