17 projects awarded option agreements in ScotWind bonanza

Wind Energy – ScotWind

Crown Estate Scotland has awarded option agreements to 17 projects totalling almost 25GW in its ScotWind offshore wind lease auction.

ScottishPower Renewables and Shell are the largest single winner having been awarded the seabed rights to develop three new offshore wind farms. As already posted earlier today the projects comprise the 3GW MarramWind and 2GW CampionWind joint ventures with Shell for two floating projects off the north-east and east coasts respectively.

SPR also secured the 2GW MachairWind fixed foundation scheme off the coast of Islay, which the Scottish developer is pursuing alone.

Other winners are:

• BP landed 2.9GW for a fixed foundation wind farm in partnership with German player EnBW. The two will develop the Morven project in a 860km square lease area located around 60km off the coast of Aberdeen.

• SSE Renewables in partnership with Marubeni and CIP landed 2.6GW in a 858 square km zone that will support the development of a new giant floating offshore wind farm.

• DEME Group , Aspiravi & Qair Group (JV called Thistle Wind) with 2GW of fixed and floating wind farms.

• Offshore Wind Power, a joint venture between Macquarie’s Green Investment Group , TotalEnergies and RIDG (15%), with 2GW.

• Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind won the NE4 site off the north-east coast and has named the 1GW project the Caledonia wind farm.

• Vattenfall and Fred Olsen notched a 798MW success for a project 67km off the east coast.

• The Floating Energy Allyance of BayWa r.e., Belgian developer Elicio and floating wind pioneer BW Ideol secured 960MW for the area designated NE8, located some 75km to the northeast of Fraserburgh on the Aberdeenshire coast.

• Norwegian developer Magnora Offshore Wind and Technip FMC won 495MW in the north-western part of Scotland, 40km off the Western Isles.

• Orsted, Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy landed 2.7GW.

The winning projects were selected out of a total of 74 applications, and have now been offered option agreements which reserve the rights to specific areas of seabed.

A total of just under £700m will be paid by the successful applicants in option fees and passed to the Scottish government for public spending.

Original Source: https://ocean-energyresources.com/2022/01/17/17-projects-awarded-option-agreements-in-scotwind-bonanza/