Danske Commodities says under the PPA it will handle all forecasting and trading for 294MW-worth of the wind farm’s production.

The Danish firm has signed the agreement with project company Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) which is owned by UK utility SSE (50%), Repsol Nuevas Energias UK (25%) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (25%).

The PPA is Danske Commodities' first long-term balancing contract in the UK market, where it has been trading power since 2010.

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