Vattenfall and Seagust have formed a joint venture to bid for offshore wind areas in Norway’s upcoming licensing rounds (expected in 2022). The joint venture intends to bid on licenses in both the Utsira Nord and Sørlige Nordsjø II areas in the North Sea. Utsira Nord has an offshore wind potential of 1.5 GW and Sørlige Nordsjø II has a potential of 3 GW.
Several consortia have already expressed interest in taking part to the future offshore wind tender: Equinor, RWE Renewables and Hydro will jointly bid for the Sørlige Nordsjø II area, along with a consortium of EnBW, Norseman Wind, ASKO Fornybar, and NorgesGruppen. RWE will also bid for the Utsira Nord area in a consortium with NTE and Havfram. Earlier in February 2022, the Norwegian power utility Agder Energi and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) formed a partnership to jointly bid for the Utsira Nord area. Other bidders in the tenders will include a consortium of Ørsted, Fred. Olsen Renewables and Hafslund Eco, a consortium of BP, Aker and Staktraft, a consortium of Shell, BKK and Lyse and a consortium of Iberdrola, Iberdrola, TotalEnergies, and Norsk Havvind. In December 2021, EDF formed a 50:50 joint venture with the Norwegian independent power producer (IPP) Deep Wind Offshore to bid for the development of two commercial-scale projects in the Utsira Nord and Sorlige Nordsjo 2 zones.
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