Salamander, a three way partnership between Ørsted, Merely Blue Group and Subsea7, is delighted to have been provided an exclusivity settlement as a part of Crown Property Scotland’s Innovation and Focused Oil and Gasoline (INTOG) leasing spherical.
Salamander, a three way partnership between Ørsted, Merely Blue Group and Subsea7, is delighted to have been provided an exclusivity settlement as a part of Crown Property Scotland’s Innovation and Focused Oil and Gasoline (INTOG) leasing spherical.
The 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind undertaking, positioned 35km from Peterhead, is designed to present Scotland and its provide chain an early alternative to ship floating offshore wind forward of the bigger ScotWind buildout. With gigawatts of floating wind buildout anticipated in Scotland and the UK over the following decade, Salamander shall be a precious stepping-stone to make sure native provide chains are prepared and in a position to take full benefit of this chance. Salamander will current a package deal of recent applied sciences on a business scale, getting ready them for the launch of utility-scale initiatives similar to ScotWind leases. These applied sciences shall be vital to making sure that floating offshore wind energy is sustainable, reasonably priced for shoppers and contributes worth to native trade and enterprise.
The INTOG spherical is split into two pots – one for smaller innovation initiatives of 100 MW or much less and one for bigger initiatives involving oil and fuel infrastructure. Salamander is profitable within the innovation route.
Huw Bell, Salamander Challenge Director, stated: “This chance by INTOG will enable us to progress the undertaking, which is able to play a key function in how the trade takes floating wind ahead and assist the Scottish provide chain. to extend actions for the native and worldwide markets.
“We anticipate our strategy to assist the floating wind trade in the identical manner that fastened offshore wind has efficiently decreased prices over the previous ten years. wind assets and create jobs for native communities.”
The Salamander is at present present process an environmental affect evaluation (EIA). The undertaking has submitted its EIA Scoping Report back to Marine Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council, which has now handed it to statutory and non-statutory consultees for his or her evaluation and responses to the proposed undertaking and EIA scope. The undertaking has a grid connection settlement with the Nationwide Grid to ship the undertaking by 2030 and contribute to the UK’s 5GW floating wind goal.
Gabriel Davies, Head of Floating Wind at Ørsted, stated: “Salamander is a stepping-stone undertaking designed to encourage and assist modern, renewable provide chains in Scotland, rising the alternatives to assist renewables all over the world. With floating wind on the cusp of industrialization, Salamander will play a key function in decreasing prices and accelerating the total business deployment of the expertise.”
Duncan Clark, Head of Ørsted UK and Eire, stated: “This award comes a 12 months after we efficiently secured the 1 GW Stromar floating lease within the Scotwind lease spherical and marks one other necessary milestone within the continuation of our world floating wind technique. Along with our Stromar undertaking, the pair kind a complementary floating offshore improvement portfolio in Scotland.”
For extra info, contact: Richard.crighton@bigpartnership.co.uk
About Salamander Floating Offshore Wind
The 100MW Salamander floating wind undertaking, a three way partnership between Ørsted, Merely Blue Group and Subsea7, shall be a significant contributor to making sure that the UK authorities’s goal of delivering 5GW of operational floating offshore wind by 2030 is achieved. ot and to the utmost good thing about the general public. and personal stakeholders.
The pioneering undertaking, positioned 35km from Peterhead on the East Coast of Scotland, is designed to present the Scottish provide chain an early alternative to develop capability, enabling it to play a larger function in a succession of enormous floating offshore winds.
The undertaking will deploy modern and cutting-edge floating offshore wind applied sciences to assist the fee discount and studying journey required for the business deployment of floating offshore wind.
About Ørsted
Ørsted’s imaginative and prescient is a world that runs totally on inexperienced power. Ørsted develops, builds and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, photo voltaic farms, power storage amenities, and bioenergy vegetation, and offers power merchandise to its prospects. Globally, Ørsted is the market chief in offshore wind and it’s constructing the world’s largest offshore wind farm on the East Coast of the UK. Ørsted has been acknowledged by the CDP Local weather Change A-Listing as a world chief in local weather motion and is the primary power firm on this planet with a science-based net-zero emissions goal validated by the Science Based mostly Targets initiative (SBTi). Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted works with approx. 8,000 folks, together with over 1,100 within the UK. Go to orsted.co.uk or comply with us on Fb, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter
