Boasting one of Europe’s largest offshore Renewable Energy Zones, outlined in blue on the Marine Scotland National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPI) online map tool on the left, Scotland is the natural location for your offshore wind project.

To put this into perspective, the four countries that signed the Esbjerg Offshore Wind Declaration (Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark) have collectively pledged to deliver 150GW of offshore wind by 2050. Scotland’s REZ is larger than the combined offshore areas of all four nations.

Although Scotland has been slow to exploit this huge offshore wind resource, the pace of development is now picking up with over 5.4 gigawatt (GW) already operational or under construction, 7.3GW with planning consent and up to 36GW in the pipeline. With this level of projects we’re ensuring this huge market continues to boom.

Our ScotWind Leasing Round alone awarded over 32GW of offshore wind leases with the aim of delivering the bulk of this capacity by 2032-33. Over 64% of this capacity is floating wind and the whole round did not exceed the targeted 8,600sq km allocated for this round. This is out of a REZ which consists of over 300,000sq km and illustrates the huge potential for future offshore wind in Scottish waters. It is also one of the reasons why Scotland has the potential to be a future large scale producer and exporter of green hydrogen to the rest of the UK and to Northern Europe.