Norway's first offshore wind farm on hold

Plans for Norway’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm have been put on hold, with its developer blaming a lack of “political will” to back the renewable energy source in the oil- and gas-rich nation.

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 says: “Today the situation is different. There is high activity in the oil and Log in to read complete article.

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