Crown Estate Scotland has given the green light to 10 floating wind farms, and 17 new projects overall, worth around £700 million investment. To put the proposed 25GW of projects in context, they would be two-and-a-half times the UK’s entire current offshore wind capacity and equivalent to Europe’s entire existing offshore wind capacity.

Construction of what will become Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm has reached its latest milestone.

Devolved national government sets out 37 ‘key actions’ it will undertake over the next five years to reach its ambition of building 25GW by 2045.

Scottish offshore energy company Equinor has revealed its preferred floating wind foundation design for full-scale gigawatt (GW) commercial floating offshore wind, if successful in the ScotWind leasing round.

The UK continental shelf in entering a new era as an energy basin in which floating wind will be a go-to technology in thinking about baseload clean-power, decarbonisation of offshore oil & gas operations and – yes – hydrogen, writes Darius Snieckus.

While interest in marine-based energy systems appears to be growing, the current footprint of the industry and its technologies remains small. The news marks another major step forward for the U.K.’s nascent marine energy sector.

Shell and Scottish Power said they had the “right blend of skills and experience” to successfully deliver the floating offshore wind projects.