Vattenfall and Fred. Olsen Seawind awarded rights to build floating offshore wind farm outside Scotland
The partnership between Fred. Olsen Seawind and Vattenfall was successful as bidder in the Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind offshore leasing round. This will allow to commence works necessary to deliver a project with a capacity of up to 798 MW, enough electricity to power over 700,000 UK homes.The 50/50 partnership has been awarded the rights to develop an offshore wind farm site located 67km off the east coast and supporting Scotland’s net zero ambitions to deliver 11 GW of offshore wind by 2030.
The project brings together the skills and experience of two of Europe’s leading renewable