Crown Estate Scotland has selected 17 offshore wind projects from 74 applicants in the ScotWind seabed leasing round with a combined capacity of 24.82GW.
The manager of Scotland’s seabed has secured £700m from the successful applicants through option fees, which will now be passed to the Scottish government to spend on public welfare.
At the time of its launch in June 2020, the ScotWind leasing round was expected by Crown Estate Scotland to procure at least 10GW of new offshore wind capacity.
The winning offshore wind projects in the auction include 10 that use floating wind technology, six that are fixed-bottom, and one that will use a mix of the two technologies.
The floating wind projects have a combined capacity of 14.5GW. Royal Dutch Shell and ScottishPower through a consortium have the largest project in the segment with a capacity of 3GW.
The area of seabed covered by the 17 winning projects is over 7,000 sq km. A maximum of 8,600 sq km was made available via the sectoral marine plan of the Scottish government for the ScotWind leasing round.
Some of the other winners of the auction are the BP and EnBW consortium with the 2.9GW Morven offshore wind project, a consortium of SSE Renewables, Marubeni and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) with a 2.6GW floating offshore wind project, and a joint venture between TotalEnergies, Green Investment Group and RIDG with the 2GW West of Orkney wind farm.
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