Offshore Wind Scotland
Scotland has a phenomenal offshore wind resource. We also have the ambition, experience and commitment to be a global leader in offshore wind.
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Huge offshore development area
Scotland has over 462,000 km² in its offshore Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), one of the largest in Europe. Now home to one of the largest leasing rounds in the world, ScotWind.
Innovation in Energy Transition
Scotland has launched the world's first offshore wind leasing round to decarbonise the oil and gas sector's production energy in the North Sea .
Supply chain opportunities
Scotland's supply chain companies are gearing up to deliver some of the largest fixed and floating offshore wind projects in the world.
Scotland - World leader in floating offshore wind
Scotland currently has two operational floating wind farms, Hywind Scotland and the Kincardine project, but now plans to add a further 27GW of floating wind over the next decade. Our existing wind farms and plans for future developments are outlined below and details of all these projects can be found on this portal site for offshore wind in Scotland.
The East Coast of Scotland is currently home to the bulk of our offshore wind farms in various stages of development. Projects include those in operation, under construction and some that are still in the planning pipeline.
Our oldest operational project, Robin Rigg, dates from 2010 and is in the Solway Firth on the southwest coast of Scotland. Taken together, these initial projects amount to over 10GW of offshore wind.
Our ScotWind leasing round will add a further 32.3GW to this total over the next 10 years and will extend the wind farms into the west and northern coasts, as well as the northern Isles. ScotWind also includes 21.8GW of commercial floating wind sites.
ScotWind has now been joined by 12 further floating wind projects from the INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas) leasing round, amounting to 5.4GW in total, aimed at the electrification of our offshore oil and gas infrastructure to help decarbonise their production energy.
INTOG will be the first such leasing round in the world aimed at helping the oil and gas industry in the UK reach their Net Zero Basin target as part of the North Sea Transition Deal.
All of the above puts Scotland in the top ten of global offshore wind markets with a pipeline of 43.5GW, and, with just over 27GW of this being floating wind capacity, establishes Scotland as the number one market in the world for floating wind development.
Offshore wind in Scotland
Discover why Scotland's offshore wind sector blows the competition away.
We have close government and industry cooperation to remove barriers to delivery.
Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council
How companies can access one of the largest offshore wind markets in the world.
Scottish Development International
The Clean Energy Cluster
The Clean Energy Cluster is Scotland’s national offshore wind supply chain cluster and is one of the largest in Europe. It is managed and delivered by trade association, Scottish Renewables.
It takes over from the previous offshore wind supply chain cluster, DeepWind, which, over a 6 year period, had become the largest offshore wind supply chain cluster in Europe with over 940 members. DeepWind was run and managed by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), one of the Scottish Government's Enterprise Agencies and the intention was always to hand the reigns over to industry. The bulk of the DeepWind membership has been transferred to the Clean Energy Cluster.
The national cluster is supported by the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council and the three Scottish Government Enterprise agencies (HIE, Scottish Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise). The Clean Energy Cluster is also the UK's leading floating wind supply chain cluster due to our strong heritage from dealing with floating systems over our 50 year plus experience from the oil and gas supply chain.
