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The industry has responded to the National Grid ESO’s Network Options Assessment report

The industry has responded to the National Grid ESO’s Network Options Assessment report: National Grid ESO has proposed “large reinforcements” in the electricity transmission network to manage the rising cost of balancing actions associated with the scale of renewables. The ESO suggests that interconnector projects of 18.2 GW to 29.5 GW between Britain and Europe by…

Remarks from industry to National Grid ESO’s NOA report

Remarks from industry to National Grid ESO’s NOA report: National Grid ESO has suggested “large reinforcements” in the electricity transmission network to be capable to handle the increasing cost of balancing actions related with the scale of renewables. In its yearly Network Options Assessment (NOA) report, the ESO recommend interconnector projects of 18.2 GW to…

Winners of the wind turbine competition announced

Winners of the wind turbine competition announced: The Crown Estate Scotland announced 17 successful bids for its offshore ScotWind leasing process today, from a list of 74 applicants. These projects encompass more than 7,000 square kilometres of seabed, and the winning applicants, which include SSE Renewables, Falck Renewables, Shell, ScottishPower, and Vattenfall, are set to…

Floating offshore wind port may bring £1.5bn to Scotland

Floating offshore wind port may bring £1.5bn to Scotland: The development of a floating offshore wind port cluster that can connect manufacturers together may produce £1.5 billion in economic favour for Scotland. Managed by Professor Sir Jim McDonald of Strathclyde University, a current study, authorised by the Scottish Government & offshore industry, advises a partnership…

48.9GW of new renewables projects in the scoping stages

48.9GW of new renewables projects in the scoping stages: Renewables projects labelled as “scoping” currently represents 50% or 48.9GW of the total viable pipeline capacity*, according to the latest analysis from Cornwall Insight. Of this 48.9GW “scoping” total, 38.6GW is from offshore wind, 5.0GW from battery projects, 3.0GW from onshore wind and 1.5GW from solar…

Scotland fishing port supports wind projects

Scotland fishing port supports wind projects. The largest fishing port in Europe, situated in Scotland, recently signed a letter of interest with Falck Renewables and Bluefloat Energy in aid of offshore floating wind projects in the North Sea. The partners will assist in exploring a multitude of development opportunities, this letter states that the port…

Pipeline for renewable energy & storage projects up 86GW

13th April 2021

Heather Trudeau

CFD, Cornwall Insight, crown estate, onshore wind, Renewable energy, ScotWind, solar PV

CFD, Cornwall Insight, crown estate, onshore wind, Renewable energy, scotwind, solar pv

Pipeline for renewable energy & storage projects up 86GW: The latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s Renewables Pipeline Tracker reveal the pipeline of renewable energy and storage projects across England, Scotland and Wales currently stands at 86GW. The research also shows 40.6GW of sites are classified with a development status of “scoping”. This is where sites…

Current offshore wind pipeline falls short of 40GW by 2030

Current offshore wind pipeline falls short of 40GW by 2030: Latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Renewables pipeline tracker report‘ show that even if all current offshore wind sites with leasing are developed in the coming years, total offshore wind capacity would only reach 29.7GW by 2030. The report currently tracks 22 sites across both floating…

First offshore wind leasing by Crown Estate Scotland in a decade

10th June 2020

Andy Robinson

Business Energy News, Crown Estate Scotland, Efficiency & Environment, energy, Finance & Markets, Infrastructure, leasing, offshore, Renewable, ScotWind, Uncategorised

ScotWind

The industry has responded to the National Grid ESO’s Network Options Assessment report

Remarks from industry to National Grid ESO’s NOA report

Winners of the wind turbine competition announced

Floating offshore wind port may bring £1.5bn to Scotland

48.9GW of new renewables projects in the scoping stages

Scotland fishing port supports wind projects

Pipeline for renewable energy & storage projects up 86GW

Current offshore wind pipeline falls short of 40GW by 2030

First offshore wind leasing by Crown Estate Scotland in a decade

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