{"id":87454,"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2024\/10\/21\/a-lot-of-wind-energy-news-from-bp-and-france\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"a-lot-of-wind-energy-news-from-bp-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/climate\/2024\/10\/21\/a-lot-of-wind-energy-news-from-bp-and-france\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot of wind energy news from BP and France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.1500000000000001;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong><\/strong><strong>British oil giant BP is considering <\/strong><strong>selling a minority stake in its offshore wind business<\/strong>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/bp-weighs-sale-minority-stake-offshore-wind-business-sources-say-2024-10-17\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported on Friday, citing several unnamed sources. BP does not have any offshore wind projects in operation, but has a 9.6 GW pipeline in Asia, Europe, and the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.1500000000000001;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The company is scaling back its renewables investments: <\/strong>The company plans to sell a stake in its solar joint venture Lightsource BP once it completes its acquisition. The news comes not too long after BP said it was planning to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/climate\/en\/news\/story\/6a106796-cd7e-4f25-a091-bb43afc1bfa7\/vivopower-international-signs-usd-1.13-bn-merger-with-canada%25e2%2580%2599s-fast\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">sell its US onshore wind energy business<\/a> BP Wind Energy and shift focus to developing utility-scale onshore renewable energy and solar power globally through Lightsource BP. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.1500000000000001;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">REMEMBER- BP\u2019s new CEO <\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/climate\/en\/news\/story\/6efbc0be-16ad-45d7-b046-fd73c9682714\/today:-fertiglobe-secures-eur-397-mn-offtake-agreement-from-germany%25e2%2580%2599s-h2global\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed his intention<\/a><\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> to slow down large low-carbon investments that are \u201cnot expected to be profitable for years.\u201d <\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">BP also dropped its ambitious goal to slash oil output by 40% before 2030 as a result of <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/climate\/en\/news\/story\/7dfe6397-0595-41aa-b7d1-a13222b2fc4f\/today:-big-green-hydrogen-investments-from-pif%3F-%2B-uae-%2B-norway-ink-energy-agreements\" rel=\"noopener\">Investors\u2019 skepticism<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> about the profitability of the company under its ambitious transition strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height:2px;border-width:0;color:gray;background-color:gray\">\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.1500000000000001;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>France plans 9.2 GW of offshore wind: <\/strong>France\u2019s energy ministry is planning to launch tenders within the coming months for five wind farms with 9.2 GW capacity, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/france-tender-92-gw-offshore-wind-projects-coming-months-2024-10-18\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported on Friday, citing a ministry decision. The government hopes the tenders will send a \u201csignal\u201d for manufacturers to stay in France and not \u201cde-localize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.1500000000000001;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The details: <\/strong>The plants \u2014 two fixed and three floating \u2014 are part of a goal to achieve 45 GW of wind power by 2050 and will be built of- the coast of Fecamp, offshore from Brittany, and by the southern Mediterranean coast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company is scaling back renewables investment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[70,11,46],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-87454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-around-the-world","tag-enterpriseclimate","tag-wind-energy","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"00d03485-57cd-4f3a-92e1-e4bf2271de55","order":"8","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/10\/580.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"A lot of wind energy news from BP and France","related_issue":[87440],"teaser":"The company is scaling back renewables investment","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/10\/.3689e430-dc57-4052-9c3a-9b2a2cb48557.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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