Sweden's Vattenfall wins Dutch 700 MW offshore wind tender

Swedish utility Vattenfall has won the right to build a 700 megawatt (MW) subsidy-free wind farm in the Dutch part of the North Sea, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Monday.The Netherlands' government is among the first to offer a so-called zero subsidy tender for wind power, in which only bids that required no government support could compete for the two 350 MW slots known as Hollandse Kust I and II.Vattenfall beat Norway's Statoil and Germany's Innogy in the tender.