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  • Investing in Ports Supporting Floating Wind Could Bring EUR 1.75 Billion to Scotland

    20 August 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    Investing in additional 22 hectares of port capacity suitable for floating wind foundation fabrication could bring in GBP 1.5 billion (around EUR 1.75 billion) into Scotland, according to an independent report commissioned by the Scottish government and offshore wind industry and published on 20 August. This initial investment could help underpin longer-term growth in port […]

  • Shell and ScottishPower Set Up Multi-Million Offshore Wind Supply Chain Funds

    9 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Wind Farm Update

    ScotWind partners ScottishPower and Shell are set to invest a total of GBP 75 million to help the supply chain and businesses support the growth of the offshore wind industry in Scotland. ScottishPower and Shell were awarded the seabed rights to develop three new offshore wind projects with a combined capacity of 7 GW through […]

  • UK Launches GBP 160 Million Floating Wind Funding Round, Industry Not Satisfied with Investment

    31 March 2023
    Authorities, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    The UK Government has announced that up to GBP 160 million in grant funding will be made available for certain investments for the floating offshore wind sector. The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has established the Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (FLOWMIS) to distribute GBP 160 million in funding to support […]

  • TotalEnergies and Partners Reveal 2 GW ScotWind Offshore Wind Bid

    29 September 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    A consortium of TotalEnergies, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and RIDG has submitted a bid for an offshore wind project in an area west of the Orkney Islands as part of the ScotWind leasing round. The two-gigawatt proposal, named the West of Orkney Windfarm, has the potential to power more than two million homes and is […]

  • Shell, ScottishPower Explore Floating Wind Skills Initiative in Scotland

    12 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    ScottishPower and Shell have announced that they are exploring a new collaboration with the National Energy Skills Accelerator (NESA) to maximise economic and employment opportunities related to the development of floating offshore wind farms in Scottish waters. According to the companies, they will use their ScotWind projects, MarramWind and CampionWind, to focus on the benefits […]

  • Crown Estate Supports Four Nature-Positive Offshore Wind Research Projects

    3 August 2023
    Business development, Environment, Research & Development

    The Crown Estate has revealed that it is partnering with a range of UK-wide expert bodies to launch four research projects to support nature recovery and the coexistence of offshore wind farms with marine life. The projects aim to fill critical evidence gaps around how seabirds interact with offshore windfarms and how strategic compensation measures […]

  • Ocean Winds Confirms Plan to Use ScotWind Site to Full Capacity

    5 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds (OW), a 50-50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has confirmed its intent to maximise the developable area of the project site for which it won the development rights in the ScotWind auction. Across the 429-square-kilometre site, Ocean Winds plans to build out its Caledonia offshore wind farm to an installed generation […]

  • ScotWind Partners Award First Supplier Contracts

    11 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a partnership between DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi, has entered into a series of new supplier contracts for its two ScotWind projects in Scotland. The two projects are the 1 GW Clearan Ear-Thuath floating wind farm located 33 kilometres off the coast of Orkney and the 1 GW Cluaran Deas Ear fixed-foundation […]

  • Aker Offshore Wind Sets Sights on Deep-Water Projects

    6 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Aker Solutions’ offshore wind spin-off, Aker Offshore Wind, will initially focus on deep-water fixed-bottom and floating wind projects in four different markets: South Korea, the USA, Scotland, and Norway. ScotWind According to a company presentation, Aker Offshore Wind has entered into an agreement with ”a reputable utility company” to submit a joint bid in the […]

  • Thistle Wind Partners Rename 2 GW ScotWind Offshore Wind Projects

    20 March 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Thistle Wind Partners, a consortium founded by DEME Concession, Qair, and Aspiravi, has announced the final names for its two ScotWind offshore wind projects. TWP won the seabed leasing rights for two offshore wind projects in the ScotWind auction last year, in which 25 GW of capacity was awarded. The consortium plans to build the […]

  • BP and EnBW Set Sights on Scottish Offshore Wind

    11 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    UK oil major BP and the German energy company EnBW will be taking part in the upcoming ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. The companies have now launched a bespoke online portal for the Scottish engineering and supply sector, as they aim to expand their partnership’s offshore wind portfolio by participating in the ScotWind auction. […]

  • Ørsted Marks First Floating Offshore Wind Win

    18 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland (CES) has selected the Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy consortium to enter into an Option Agreement for a new floating offshore wind site off the north-east coast of Scotland. The award for this floating wind site of up to 1 GW in scale has been made through CES’s ScotWind offshore wind […]

  • Port of Nigg Making Room for More Offshore Wind

    28 January 2021
    Ports & Logistics

    Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has approved an investment of up to GBP 8.3 million in Scottish Government funding for an GBP 18.9 million project to develop the East Quay at Port of Nigg in Easter Ross. Owned by Global Energy Group (GEG), Port of Nigg is home to the largest graving dock […]

  • Ideol and Scottish Port Pen Floating Wind Agreement

    18 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    The France-headquartered Ideol has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Port of Cromarty Firth in Scotland to cooperate for the floating offshore wind sector. The agreement will see Ideol and its future local construction partners use the port’s land and firth berthing sites and cooperate towards further developing the facilities and infrastructure to […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Sets New Seabed Leasing Plan

    29 April 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Scotland’s new leasing round for offshore wind projects is likely to fully launch in October, according to Crown Estate Scotland. This means that the new leasing round, to be called ScotWind Leasing, will then be open for submitting applications for developments. Crown Estate Scotland said there will also be a pre-launch in July, which will provide […]

  • Ørsted Takes Majority Stake in Floating Wind Project Offshore Scotland

    6 April 2022
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has joined a floating wind joint venture set up by Simply Blue Group and Subsea 7 and is acquiring a majority stake in the Salamander project offshore Scotland. The 100 MW Salamander project is a stepping-stone floating wind project off the east coast of Scotland, designed to provide the Scottish supply chain with an […]

  • Aker Presents Massive Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Project in Scotland at COP26

    4 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Aker Offshore Wind and Aker Clean Hydrogen, together with DNV, have used the COP26 conference to unveil a project utilising 10 GW of floating offshore wind capacity to power multiple floating installations which will produce green hydrogen for onwards transmission to a net-zero hydrogen refinery on Shetland. The refinery will produce a range of zero […]

  • Consortium Bidding in ScotWind Plans Sharing Project Ownership with Community

    5 October 2021
    Business & Finance

    The consortium between Falck Renewables, Ørsted, and BlueFloat Energy, which is bidding in the latest ScotWind leasing round, has signed an exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with the community ownership organisation Energy4All to work on opportunities for Scottish communities to own a stake in the consortium’s offshore wind projects. Under the agreement, Energy4All will co-operate with […]

  • Scottish Demo to Test Floating Wind Innovations with Government Funding

    25 January 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Demonstrator has been awarded GBP 9.6 million of UK government funding to develop and demonstrate a suite of UK-manufactured innovative floating wind technologies for the first time. The Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) Demonstrator Programme funding provided through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio will help accelerate technologies to support the roll-out […]

  • Scotland Awards 25 GW in ScotWind Auction, More than Half for Floating Wind Farms

    17 January 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Crown Estate Scotland has selected 17 offshore wind projects in its ScotWind seabed leasing round, which aimed to procure at least 10 GW of offshore wind but resulted in the chosen proposals having a total capacity of 24,826 MW. Ten projects are using floating wind technology, six are fixed-bottom, and one involves installing both floating […]

  • Overcoming Floating Wind Challenges Is Key to Global Energy Transition – Houlder

    27 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Contribution, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The following article is a guest post by Mark Goalen, Director – Offshore Engineering, Houlder. The scaling up of renewable energy capacity will be essential for the success of the global energy transition. Increasing offshore wind capacity is, in turn, key to scaling up renewable energy production but is reliant on developers installing high-capacity farms […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Revises Seabed Leasing Timelines

    29 January 2019
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Crown Estate Scotland has decided it will launch the next round of offshore wind leasing in Scottish waters in July 2019 at the earliest. The decision comes despite the announcement in November 2018 that the leasing round will be launched in April at the earliest. According to Crown Estate Scotland, the final timing of the […]

  • Naval Energies Joins Scottish Offshore Wind Cluster

    7 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    Naval Energies has joined the DeepWind offshore wind cluster as part of its strategy to offer floating wind technology in the Scottish market. The French offshore renewable energy technology developer said it aims to join in the development of the floating wind sector in Scotland and offer its semi-submersible floater. “Naval Energies, a strategic player in floating […]

  • Metocean Measurement Campaign to Start at 1 GW Scottish Floating Wind Farm Site

    31 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Partrac will soon deploy a floating LiDAR Buoy at the site of the Buchan floating wind project offshore Scotland, which is being developed by Floating Energy Allyance (FEA), a consortium comprising BW Ideol, Elicio, and BayWa r.e. The deployment is estimated to be carried out on 15 November, subject to weather conditions, using the vessel […]

  • Vattenfall and Fred. Olsen Renewables to Jointly Bid in ScotWind Leasing Round

    25 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Fred. Olsen Renewables and Vattenfall have entered into a partnership on a 50/50 basis in order to bid in the upcoming leasing round for offshore wind in Scotland. Scotland’s upcoming offshore wind leasing round – ScotWind – will include up to 15 areas amounting to 10 GW in capacity. Bids for lease options will be […]

  • 100 MW Floating Wind Project Offshore Scotland Moves Forward

    7 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Highland Wind Limited is pressing ahead with plans to build the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF), a 100 MW floating wind project offshore Scotland. Highland Wind is majority-owned by Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through one of its Copenhagen Infrastructure (CI) funds. Once completed, the wind farm, located 6.5 kilometres off […]