Oslo, Norway --
Norway has awarded concessions to build eight new onshore wind farms
for about 20 billion kroner ($3.3 billion) in a bid to triple the
country’s capacity to more than 2 gigawatts by 2020.
Concessions given SAE Vind DA, Sarepta Energi AS and Zephyr AS would add 1.3 gigawatts of wind power,
which could produce 3.7 terawatt-hours, enough to supply 185,000
households for a year, the Petroleum and Energy Ministry said in a
statement today. The concessions in the Trondheim area also include a
power line to be built by Statnett SF, which operates the Norwegian
electricity grid.
“This is a historic day for Norway’s wind-power production,”
Petroleum and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe said in the statement. The
new capacity will “represent a significant part of Norway’s renewables
commitment.”
Norway aims to have 67.5 percent of its energy
consumption from renewable sources by 2020, and has established a common
green certificate scheme with Sweden under which the two Nordic
countries plan to build additional renewable energy capacity of 26.4 TWh
by the end of the decade. To be eligible for certificates, the new wind
farms will need to be ready by 2020, ministry spokeswoman Lise Rist
said in an e-mail.
Norway had a wind-power capacity
of 704 megawatts and a production of 1.57 gigawatt-hours in 2012,
according to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. Wind power represented 1.1 percent of the country’s power production, which consists almost exclusively of hydropower.
The wind-turbine market
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa is expected to shrink this year
and next because of slower economic growth and fewer subsidies,
according to Make Consulting, which sees 13.3 gigawatts installed in the
region in 2013 and 12.4 gigawatts in 2014, down from 13.4 gigawatts
last year.
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