Norway’s long-anticipated flagship offshore wind auction may yet throw up final stumbling blocks for developers fine-tuning bids for hand-in this month, including issues linked to requirements of high voltage (HV) transmission system experience and an as-yet-undefined carbon footprint criterion, new analysis by research house Aegir Insights has flagged.
The landmark round, which will ultimately encompass capacity totaling 4.5GW on the Sørlige Nordsjø 2 site in the southern North Sea and the Utsira Nord zone in the deeps off western Norway, fires the starting pistol on commercial sector development in the country, after years of inaction have left it with
