BP buys wind firm Greenlight Energy

Oil major BP Plc said on Tuesday it had bought U.S. wind energy firm Greenlight Energy Inc. for around $98 million (52 million pounds) to boost its wind power business in North America.

Virginia-based Greenlight Energy owns the rights to develop 39 wind farms in the United States which, BP said, if fully developed have a potential to produce a combined power generation of 6.5 gigawatts.