Thursday, February 19, 2009

Crown Estate awards rights on 6GW Scottish offshore wind power


One of the two turbines being built for the existing Beatrice offshore wind farm, which is to be extended under the Scottish offshore wind programme
The Crown Estate has today announced that it will be offering "exclusivity agreements" to nine developers to investigate the potential of 10 offshore wind projects in Scottish territorial waters.

The awards follow a tender process and will allow the firms and consortia to carry out further feasibility studies at the sites, thought to have a total wind capacity of 6GW.

But the Estate said today that it will not grant formal leases to develop at the sites until the Scottish Government completes a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for offshore wind within Scottish territorial waters.

See full Article.