A number of development consortiums, led by Mitsubishi Corp, have been awarded the rights to operate around 1,689 MW of offshore wind farms in Japanese waters.

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust Plc announced that it has completed the purchase of a 71.4-MW portfolio of wind projects in Finland, marking the company\'s first foray into the Nordic country.

Masdar, Abu Dhabi\'s renewable energy firm, and the Taaleri SolarWind II fund have jointly launched three onshore wind farms in Poland with a total capacity of 51.4 MW.

After gaining an environmental permit and selecting the port of Ustka as the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 350-MW F.E.W. Baltic II project in the Baltic Sea, German energy giant RWE AG is moving forward with the construction of its first offshore wind farm in Poland.

Statkraft AS, a Norwegian renewable energy company, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to deliver 30 GWh of onshore wind energy annually to three plants owned by Leipzig-based cement company Opterra in Germany.