BP seeking to build wind farms off Scotland
BP Plc is preparing to bid for the rights to build wind farms off Scotland, The Times reported early on Monday.
BP Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney told The Times the
firm was looking at bidding in the forthcoming Crown Estate Scotland auction to
lease the seabed off Scotland for offshore wind projects.
Bids for the ScotWind process, offering 17 areas spanning
8,600 square km (3,320 square miles) of seabed, are yet to be finalised with a
deadline of July 16, The Times reported.
BP is working on bidding jointly for the Scottish leases
with EnBW Energie Baden Wuerttemberg AG, the German regional utility it
partnered with on its first move into Britain’s offshore wind market in
February in the Irish Sea, The Times report said.
In February, BP won two sites representing a total of 3
gigawatts (GW) jointly with EnBW, in what Bernstein analysts called a “highly
contested race”.
It aims to ramp up renewable power generation from 3.3 GW at
present to 50 GW by 2030, while slashing oil output to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
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