Recharge has learned the company now planned to "demobilise resources" linked to its $120m Hywind Maine demonstrator, which was to have installed a quartet of the 3MW second-generation spar-buoy machines in 140-158 metres of water.

"The project outlook all in all became too uncertain to progress in the Maine, and we will focus our resources on the Hywind project in Scotland going forward," says a Statoil spokesman.

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