Offshore Wind Scotland

The offshore wind industry group (OWIG) was founded in 2009 to ensure that Scotland leverages the potential of its offshore wind energy. Large-scale development of offshore wind power generation is the greatest opportunity for the Scottish generation to maintain economic growth.

Scotland's offshore wind power chain forum (SOWSCF) is operated as a subgroup of OWIG and can not succeed without your opinion. As part of our way to form a collective path in the future, SOWSCF will need your help to support the development of short- and long-term priorities and provide your perspective and knowledge.

To identify industry-wide challenges that are hampering the growth of the Scottish supply chain, comment on specific issues and identify as many organizations and organizations as possible to be able to identify priorities, actions and early victories since 2018/19 I would like to cooperate.

We are anxious that this forum is business driven / business driven and can work effectively with government and institutions. By doing so, it will make it possible to clarify and develop a concise "problem" so that we are appropriate for supporting the Scottish sector.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with sophisticated investigations and more detailed face / phone interviews.

There is a 197 MW offshore wind power plant including groundbreaking deep sea lands. For large turbine tests, offshore wind power generation exceeding 4 GW was approved in the plan

More than 25% of offshore wind power in Europe passes through the Scottish waters, but it is natural that some of the largest offshore wind power generation names are already running here.

A Scottish enterprise agent can help if your company is interested in the UK's billions of pounds offshore wind and renewable energy opportunities

If you would like to invest, transfer, or expand your business in Scotland, please contact the Scottish International Development Agency.

Completed 13 new offshore wind farms including the world's first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland. UK and Germany account for the majority, with 7 GW and 3 GW respectively installed. In Europe, over 4,000 offshore wind turbines are currently installed in 11 countries, total capacity and grid interconnection capacity is 15.8 GW. The average size of the new turbine is 9 megawatts, an increase of 23% compared with 2016. The average size of the new offshore wind farm is 493 megawatts, increased by 34% in 2016. The capacity coefficient is also increasing. European projects are operated with an occupancy rate of 54% (Anholt 1, Denmark) and even 65% (Dudgeon, UK).

Scotland's first offshore wind turbine was located 24 km (15 miles; 13 nautical miles) near the Beatrice oil field near the east coast of the North Sea Mari Bay in August 2006. It was the world's largest wind power generator at that time, REpower 5 M, with a maximum output of 5 MW. In August 2007, the second identical turbine was added and the wind farm began supplying electricity. As of February 2010, Beatrice Wind Farm is the deepest and most northernmost offshore wind farm in the world. This is the first time that this large offshore wind turbine was tested, and this is the first time that the wind turbine generator was assembled in such a deep (44 m) of water. Due to the very stable wind speed and minimal turbulence, this large wind power generator is ideally suited for offshore environments.