Trio of contracts awarded for 1GW Buchan floating wind project
The developers of the Buchan offshore wind project have awarded a suite of new contracts worth more than £1.5m to a trio of Scottish businesses.
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Crown Estate Scotland names new chair
Crown Estate Scotland, the body which manages seabed rights for offshore renewables, has announced Euan McVicar as its new chair.
Minister calls for urgent action on grid for Scottish wind farms
Gillian Martin said offshore wind is “the greatest economic opportunity of recent times”.
SSEN Transmission to invest £10 bn to support offshore wind in Scotland
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Transmission has announced £10 billion of investment to support offshore wind in Scotland.
‘A real commitment to Scotland’: Leith works lay path for BP’s Morven wind project
Morven is a 2.9GW ScotWind project set to be built in the E1 lease area, around 40 miles off the coast of Aberdeen.
Ardersier: Video sets out major offshore wind manufacturing vision at Highlands port
Up to 2,000 people will be onsite during peak production, with one floater produced at Ardersier every week, BW Ideol said.
ScotWind partner ‘spent three years trying to convince’ cabling giant to set up shop in Highlands
One of the developers behind a major Scottish floating wind project has shed light on the key role it played in persuading a cabling giant to build a factory in the Highlands.
Court throws out firm’s £400m lawsuit for ScotWind lease damages
A court has thrown out an offshore wind lawsuit for £400m in damages over a contested ScotWind seabed lease off Aberdeenshire.
SOWEC launches new investment framework for Scotwind supply chain
A new process to help the Scottish supply chain prepare for the wave of work expected from the Scotwind leasing round is now open to applicants.
Kent to tackle pre-FEED for BP-backed Scotwind project off Aberdeen
Kent has secured a contract to undertake pre-front-end engineering and design for the Morven wind project off Aberdeen.
Acteon’s Aberdeen teams take on survey work for northeast ScotWind projects
TerraSond and Benthic have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey contract for a pair of floating offshore wind sites secured in last year’s Scotwind auction.
Watch: ScotWind site surveys begin off Aberdeenshire, Orkney
Geophysical studies for two major offshore wind projects have got underway off the coast of Aberdeenshire and Orkney.
Developers name giant offshore windfarm after Stonehaven’s Bowdun Head
Developers of a massive offshore wind farm planned off the coast of Aberdeenshire have named it after Stonehaven’s distinctive coastal landmark, Bowdun Head.
Time to move forward with confidence to deliver on the potential of ScotWind
It is now over a year since the ScotWind leasing process created the opportunity for an additional 27.6GW of offshore wind in Scottish waters. Of the 20 projects that came through the application process, 14 are set to use floating wind turbines, positioning Scotland as a world leader in this technology. Whilst the scale of the result was eye catching, the accompanying Scottish supply chain commitments of over £28bn was perhaps the most significant result.
Fugro, Ocean Infinity bag contracts for Ossian offshore wind
Two major marine contractors have secured work providing geotechnical investigations at the site of the Ossian floating wind farm off Scotland’s east coast.
Leveraging the challenges posed by ScotWind
The energy sector is certainly changing. Analogies about the industry being on a journey are fast becoming clichéd but nevertheless we are on one.
BP, EnBW examine zero-emission options for Scottish offshore wind vessels
EnBW and BP have launched a project to evaluate the use of zero or low-emission support vessels at their planned offshore wind farms.
EMEC Orkney floating wind site ‘worth £690m’ to UK
A planned floating wind test site at Orkney from the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) will be worth nearly £700m to the UK economy, says new research.
‘The end of the beginning’: Crown Estate Scotland talks ScotWind one year on
Crown Estate Scotland talks INTOG, ScotWind 2, and looks back on a year since the first ScotWind awards were unveiled.
BP advertises collaboration openings on Scottish offshore wind farm
Companies capable of making an array of offshore wind components are being pushed to engage with BP (LON: BP) on its ScotWind project.
ScottishPower appoints first head of Scottish offshore wind
ScottishPower Renewables has appointed its first ever head of offshore development for Scotland, as it looks to make good on success in the ScotWind leasing round.
SSE Renewables in bid to increase scale of huge Scottish floating wind farm
Green energy developer SSE Renewables is exploring upping the potential overall project capacity of its ScotWind scheme.
2.8GW Scotwind clearance projects secure option agreements
Crown Estate Scotland has confirmed all three applicants in its ScotWind Clearing Round have now secured seabed option agreements.
Cromarty Firth could become wet storage base for dozens of floating wind structures
For decades oil rigs have been part of the furniture in and around the Cromarty Firth in the north of Scotland.
‘Access to labour’ a huge concern for Scotland’s energy secretary ahead of ‘emergency’ skills summit
Scotland’s net zero and energy secretary is fearful the offshore wind sector won’t have enough workers to deliver projects.