Local content to drive BP and EnBW s ScotWind bid
Prospective bidders in Scotland’s first offshore wind leasing round in more than a decade look to local supply chain companies
by Nadia Weekes
Earlier this year, BP and EnBW secured seabed rights to sites capable of supporting 3GW off the UK
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We also reported this week how the part-scale prototype of floating wind pioneer X1Wind’s PivotBuoy concept
is afloat off the Spanish island of Gran Canaria awaiting installation in the Atlantic Ocean, as plans for development of a first full-size array using the next-generation design take shape.
Floating wind is spurring technical innovation beyond the turbine platforms themselves. Siemens Energy
said it will supply grid stabilisation technology to the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) ahead of deployment of the 1.4GW Green Atlantic @ Moneypoint project that will see floating wind replace a major coal-fired plant.
A pandemic, rocketing steel prices, logistical jigsaw puzzles and the Suez Canal blockage – it wasn’t exactly a straightforward first quarter for wind giant Vestas (or, to be fair, anyone else in the business of making large engineered products and shipping them around the world).
The joint developers behind the Scottish floating wind project Salamander have signed an agreement with US outfit Ocergy to evaluate its platform technology.
Simply Blue Energy in partnership with Subsea 7 has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ocergy to evaluate how its foundation technology can be deployed for the “stepping-stone” project.
Last month, Simply Blue Energy announced it had joined forces with Subsea 7 to form a joint venture to develop the Salamander floating offshore wind project off the north-east coast of Scotland.
The aim of the project is to provide a “stepping-stone” to bridge the gap between current demonstrator projects and the future commercial projects leased in the ScotWind process.
Floating offshore wind farm eyes Chevron-backed platform
Local content drive underpins Simply Blue Energy and Subsea 7 s deal to assess Ocergy s low-weight floating platform design
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