Ofgem has selected 13 bidders to take part in a tender to own and operate £1.15 billion electricity link for offshore wind farms. Nine projects with up to 2,000 MW capacity are being put up for sale. Over GBP15 billion in investment will be needed for the same. Final offshore transmission links will transmit power enough for more than 10 million homes. The tender round will run until March/April 2010.
Ofgem’s Chief Executive Alistair Buchanan said: “Offshore generation has a crucial role to play if Britain is to meet its climate change targets. That is why selecting the first thirteen firms to bid for the ownership and operation of £1.15 billion of high-voltage transmission links is so important.
“The quality of the firms selected for the tender round shows how strong the competition is to operate these offshore transmission links.”
A second round for assets that are built, under construction, or at an advanced preconstruction stage, will be held in summer 2010. Companies which are successful in both of these tender rounds will take ownership of the transmission link once it is constructed. They will then run it and in return will receive a stable, regulated income for 20 years.
The bidders that have qualified to proceed to the qualification to tender stage are:
- ABN Amro Infrastructure Capital Management Ltd,
- Balfour Beatty Capital Limited,
- DONG Energy Sales and Distribution A/S,
- Equitix (a consortium of Equitix and AMP),
- ESB International Limited,
- Frontier Power Consortium (a consortium of Frontier Power Limited and Infracapital Partners LP),
- Imera Limited,
- Macquarie Capital Group Limited,
- National Grid Offshore Limited,
- RWE Npower plc,
- SSE Offshore Transmission Limited,
- A consortium of Stakraft UK Limited and StatoilHydro UK Holdings Limited,
- Transmission Capital Partners (a consortium of International Public Partnerships Limited, Transmission Capital Limited and Amber Infrastructure Limited).
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