Statoil
North
America
last
November
applied
for
a
commercial
lease
to
build
a
four-turbine,
12MW
pilot
of
its
Hywind
floating
offshore
concept
about
22km
from
the
US
state’s
coastline.
The
US
Bureau
of
Ocean
Energy
Management
(BOEM)
will
now
open
a
60-day
Request
for
Interest
(RFI)
process
to
see
if
other
developers
are
interested
in
constructing
wind-power
facilities
in
the
same
57
sq
km
zone
for
which
Statoil
is
seeking
a
lease.
BOEM
–
part
of
the
US
Interior
Department
–
says
this
will
help
it
“determine
whether
to
proceed
with…
