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Havgul Clean Energy Plans 140-Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm in Norway
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) -- Havgul Clean Energy AS, a Norwegian wind farm developer active in Scandinavia and the U.S., submitted a proposal to build a the Skreifjella wind farm with capacity of 140 megawatts, 70 miles north of Oslo.
“This is a very early step in the process,” Kalle Havstead, spokesman for Havgul said in a telephone interview. “We submitted our proposal to the regulators and informed the land owners and the municipality in which we propose to the develop.”
The company whose name, Havgul, stands for the wind that batters the Norwegian coast, typically develops its projects until it receives all the necessary permits, a process that can take three to four years. Then it looks for an investor to buy the whole farm.
“Those investors are usually large utilities,” Havstead said.
Havgul has 7.44 gigawatts of wind projects in various stages of development in Norway, Sweden, the U.S. and Romania.
One of the them is the 500-megawatt Aegir offshore wind farm that is being developed on Lake Michigan with Nordic peer Scandia Wind Offshore. It ran into local opposition over its effect on the view over the lake.
To contact the reporter on this story: Vanya Dragomanovich in London at Vanya.dragomanovich@gmail.com
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