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New Contracts Awarded for 1 GW Floating Wind Project Offshore Scotland
The developers behind the Buchan floating offshore wind project, have awarded a series of contracts worth more than GBP 1.5 million to three Scottish companies.
The 1 GW Buchan floating offshore wind project is being developed by the Floating Energy Allyance, a consortium comprising BW Ideol, Elicio, and BayWa r.e., which secured the rights for the project site at the beginning of last year through the ScotWind leasing round.
The three contracts were awarded to Copper Consultancy, who will support onshore and offshore stakeholder engagement and consultation, and to Natural Power, who will lead the onshore stakeholder engagement and Environmental Impact Assessment in parallel with their ongoing offshore work.
In addition, a contract was awarded to Blackhall & Powis, who will be responsible for property support, including securing land rights for the substation and onshore cabling, after having already delivered fishery liaison and early land assembly support.
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According to its developers, this marks an important step forward within the development process of the project and brings the total value of contracts awarded to date to over GBP 20 million.
“The Buchan Offshore Wind project team continues to engage with National Grid’s Holistic Network Design process and are committed to rapidly progressing both onshore and offshore elements of the project“, said Alasdair MacLeod, Project Director at Buchan Offshore Wind.
The Buchan floating offshore wind farm is planned to have a capacity of approximately 1 GW, whose wind turbines will be installed on BW Ideol’s Damping Pool floating foundations.
Geotechnical and geophysical site investigation is being carried out some 75 kilometres off the Aberdeenshire coast, by Ocean Infinity.
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Over the next decade, U.S. offshore wind power is expected to grow from a single 30-megawatt wind farm off Rhode Island to more than 2,000 MW of capacity along the Atlantic Seaboard. There are contracts for wind power off the coasts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has estimated the United States has over 4,000 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind potential, enough to power the country four times over.
The growth in part being spurred by state solicitations, including in New York, where then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) set a commitment of 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and in Connecticut, where in June 2021, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed legislation authorizing the construction of 2,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030.
The offshore development is also being driven by an investment tax credit set to end in December 2019 and is equal to 12 percent of expenditures. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) have introduced a bill to extend the tax credit for up to eight years.
The Interior Department has held eight competitive lease sales that resulted in 15 offshore wind leases over 1.7 million acres that has the potential for 21 GW of capacity. In February 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed a bidding process that realized $4.37 billion for 488,000 acres across six lease areas in federal waters off New York and New Jersey.
Projects have also been proposed off the Southeast coast, off California and Hawaii, and for the Great Lakes.