Tag: Statkraft

Statkraft partners with SolarAid to tackle climate change and energy poverty

Stuart Mitchell

SolarAid and Statkraft have announced a strategic partnership to tackle poverty and climate change. Statkraft intends to support the charity with donations totalling £2m to be paid over three years. There are 548 million people living without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, impacting their ability to learn, work and feel safe after dark. SolarAid’s ambition is to use clean, safe, and simple solar lighting to combat poverty and climate change so that no home, school or clinic in Africa is left in the dark by 2030. Statkraft is Europe’s largest renewable…

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bp, Aker and Statkraft join forces for offshore wind in the Norwegian North Sea

Stuart Mitchell

bp has agreed to join Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind in a ‎consortium bidding to develop offshore wind energy in Norway. The partnership – in which bp, Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind will each hold a 33.3% ‎share – will pursue a bid to develop offshore wind power in the Sørlige Nordsjø II (SN2) ‎licence area. SN2’s favourable location provides power export access to local and adjacent markets. The ‎consortium also intends to explore opportunities to provide clean power to electrify ‎offshore oil and gas facilities. The partnership would work…

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