Daewoo Shipbuilding — the giant South Korean corporation that is currently developing its own offshore wind turbine — is considering developing a wind farm in North America, Bloomberg reported yesterday.
The company aims to generate 30 percent of its sales from wind power by 2020, according to the report.
“It’s a very ambitious target and it won’t be easy,” Chief Strategy Officer Koh Young Youl said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Still, the market potential for wind power is very big, partly because there’s a lot of interest in going offshore as the space on land runs out.”
Some Link Seal Death To Offshore Wind Development
Scientists from St Andrews University are investigating a series of seal death’s off Britain’s east coast and are considering the possibility that they are connected to offshore wind development, London’s Daily Mail reported.
The St Andrews scientists are looking into the theory that construction boats associated with the Sheringham Shoal wind farm may have caused the so-called “corkscrew” seal deaths.
The engineering firm working on the project, however, has rejected that possibility, London’s Guardian reported.
Wed, Aug 25, 2010
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