Renewable firms, oil majors among bidders in Scotland’s wind lease tender By Reuters
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Renewable firms, oil majors and investors said they would bid into Scotland's offshore wind leasing round which closed on Friday, signalling the huge demand globally for the rights to build new offshore wind farms. Crown Estate Scotland's ScotWind wind leasing tender is its first for a decade and is expected to lead to the development of around 10 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, with much of this expected to use floating wind technology. On Friday a consortium of SSE (LON:SSE) Renewables, Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation and Danish fund management company Copenhagen...
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