Norway Approves $3 Billion Wind-Power Plants to Triple Capacity
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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.