Norway’s Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Søviknes will meet next week with companies and other stakeholders to discuss the potential construction of offshore floating wind farms in Norwegian waters, Søviknes told Reuters on Friday. “Wednesday next week I will have a meeting with different stakeholders in offshore wind and discuss both the opening process and the regulatory framework,” the minister said, adding that he hoped the parties could come up with a proposal by the fall. The floating offshore wind parks are not fixed to the seabed and are more feasible to install in deeper waters. Next week’s meeting will be the first concrete step toward Norway starting to study floating offshore wind farms, after its government said last year that it would seek to promote such plans. In wind power, Norway currently has 3.6 Terawatt hours of wind power, and another 5.5 Terawatt hours are being built, minister […]