Scottish and Southern Energy joins Swedish venture
Scottish and Southern Energy Plc or SSE for short, has agreed to form a joint venture with a Swedish wind farm consortium for the development of an 89MW onshore wind farm in Jamtland after being identified by the Swedish government as an area of national interest for wind energy development. The project development is already at an advanced stage, however, construction work is not planned to start before 2011.
SSE owns around 10,700MW of electricity generation capacity making it the second largest electricity generator across the UK and Ireland, while delivering a sustained real growth in dividends paid to shareholders through the efficient operation of, and investment in, a balanced range of regulated and non-regulated energy and utility businesses.
Paul Dowling, Chief Executive of Airtricity, which is SSE’s renewable energy development department, commented that the energy company has a strong track record in wind farm development throughout Europe and that this latest venture will increase their development pipeline in Sweden. Confirming that the Jamtland region receives a strong wind resource, Mr. Dowling said that SSE is looking forward to working with the joint venture partners in developing the site.
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Scottish-southern.co.uk/ Media/ Latest News (Joint venture to develop wind farm in Sweden)