Norway Launches Its First Offshore Wind Auction

Norway launched early on Monday local time its debut offshore wind auction, targeting up to 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of power capacity in the North Sea south of its coasts. “I hope for a good auction with several strong players who want to develop offshore wind at Soerlige Nordsjoe II,” Astrid Bergmål, State Secretary in the Norwegian Energy Ministry, told Reuters ahead of the auction start on Monday.    Norway, whose first area up for grabs for offshore wind development, Soerlige Nordsjoe II, is close to Denmark,…