The Crown Estate held meetings this week with 100 offshore wind industry representatives and 25 statutory stakeholders to discuss the potential for future seabed leasing off the UK shore.
Holding sessions on the 23, 24 and 25 July, the Crown Estate said it wanted to “share its early thinking on the potential for additional offshore wind capacity, as well as on where and how that potential could come forward”.
The organisation said that it was seeking to create a dialogue with the sector to determine the potential future scale location and nature of offshore wind leasing.
The meetings come in the same week as the UK Government’s announcement that it will hold Contracts for Difference auctions in 2019, and then every 2 years after that.
Jonny Boston, senior development manager at The Crown Estate, said: “Early engagement with industry and stakeholders is a hugely important part of our work to explore the potential for new offshore wind leasing, helping to build a better understanding of the appetite for additional capacity and inform how a tender process might run. The feedback we receive as part of this process will be vital, as we seek to balance a range of interests on the seabed and decide whether to bring forward additional rights for sustainable development offshore”.
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