SeaEnergy seeks China wind partner

Jane Bradley

A firm behind one of the new offshore wind farm consortia announced for Scotland, SeaEnergy Renewables, is in talks with Chinese energy companies about joint venture projects there.
The Aberdeen-based Sea-Energy, formerly Ramco, wants to tap into the Chinese wind farm market, one of the biggest in the world.
“We want to form an agreement there with a key player with whom we can partner,” said Allan MacAskill, the company’s business development director. “We want to be a minority partner with a local business. It’s a long, slow process, but it will be worth it.”
Representatives from the company recently spent more than a month in China, where the government aims to have 100gW of wind power capacity installed by 2020.
SeaEnergy is a 25% stakeholder in the winning consortium behind the proposed Moray Firth offshore wind farm, part of the Crown Estate’s round-three licensing programme.
EDP Renovaveis, the Portuguese renewable-energy giant, is the bigger player in the Scottish project, which is set to involve the construction of a wind farm featuring about 250 turbines, stretching from 16 miles off the northeast coast in an area known as the Smith Bank.