Floating Wind in Scotland

An advantageous history 

Scotland has a long history of developing floating systems with over 50 years of oil and gas heritage and innovation to our name. This expertise is now being put to further use in the floating offshore wind sector.

Scotland is a world leader in the deployment of floating wind with two of the world's largest operational floating wind farms, Hywind Scotland and Kincardine. Three more have planning permission from the Scottish Government, Pentland and Salamander are both 100MW projects and will be aiming to secure Contract for Difference (CFD) awards in the up and coming UK Allocation Round 7 (AR7) later this year (2025). The third project is the 560MW Green Volt wind farm, part of the INTOG leasing round, which has already secured a CFD in AR6 and will become the world's first commercial scale floating wind farm when built in 2027. 

The announcement of the winning projects in the ScotWind and INTOG leasing rounds has added just over 27GW of demonstration and commercial scale floating wind to our pipeline making Scotland the largest floating wind market in the world. Details of all these projects can be found in this section. 

Floating Wind Projects with Map

The project list and map below shows the current operational, development and pipeline floating wind projects in Scotland.

All of the related project developers and consortia are also given in the list against their specific wind farm developments. The bulk of these projects are from the ScotWind leasing round and this project list has grown larger with the addition of further floating wind farms from the INTOG or Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas leasing round.

This has now added another 12 floating projects to this existing list with an additional capacity of up to 5.4GW. The successful bidders in this round are listed in our INTOG section of the web site.