With secured growth rights, Mainstream and Ocean Winds have named the venture Arven Offshore Wind Farm. The businesses have been appointed most popular bidder by Crown Property Scotland throughout the ScotWind clearing course of in August 2022.
Because the Norwegian phrase for heritage or legacy, Arven supplies a hyperlink to the proud Norse historical past of the Shetland Islands and to the legacy which each companions plan to create on website.
With a 50-50 possession, each Mainstream and Ocean Winds are dedicated to creating floating offshore wind on an industrial scale, producing native jobs and alternatives in Scotland and the Shetland Islands.
The positioning output has the potential to energy the equal of over 2million properties and save 3million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.
“We’re thrilled to progress our plans for the Arven Offshore Wind Farm and, constructing on Mainstream’s Scottish growth expertise and the Aker group’s many years lengthy offshore heritage within the North Sea, we’re able to take a number one position in industrialising floating offshore wind” mentioned Sian Lloyd-Rees, UK Nation Supervisor for Mainstream Renewable Energy. “Supporting the UK authorities’s Internet Zero ambitions, the wind farm is properly positioned to capitalise on Scotland’s offshore experience and business as we work with native companions to discover offtake alternatives.”
Mainstream has already partnered with Ocean Winds within the three way partnership KF Wind in South Korea and is in a consortium to bid within the upcoming leasing spherical for floating wind at Utsira Nord in Norway. The 2 corporations are additionally additionally main shareholders in main floating wind know-how supplier Precept Energy.
With a confirmed basis of supply of tasks, together with Moray East, the biggest offshore wind farm in Scotland, along with pioneering floating tasks similar to WindFloat Atlantic in Portugal, Ocean Winds is properly positioned to benefit from this chance to assist the expansion of the floating wind sector in Scotland.
Ocean Winds is at present working, constructing and creating three offshore wind tasks in Scotland – Moray East – 950 MW, Moray West – 882 MW and Caledonia – as much as 2 GW.
With this award, Ocean Winds now has a complete portfolio of 6.1 GW in Scotland.
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