Crown Estate Scotland is launching a new leasing process for offshore wind farms to help decarbonize Scotland’s oil and gas sector.
Crown Estate Scotland is launching a new leasing process for offshore wind farms to help decarbonize Scotland’s oil and gas sector.
This process is separate from the ScotWind Leasing round currently under way for commercial scale offshore wind projects across Scotland; it is specifically designed for offshore wind farms which support the decarbonization of the oil and gas sector, as well as small-scale innovation projects of less than 100MW.
Crown Estate Scotland plans to open the leasing process for applications in early 2022. Successful applicants will then be granted exclusivity over relevant areas of seabed, with final option agreements put in place after the adoption of the Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas decarbonisation Offshore Wind Sectoral Marine Plan by the Scottish Government.
A further announcement on the leasing process will be made in November 2021.
