ScottishPower and Shell have signed option-to-lease agreements with Crown Estate Scotland for the seabed rights to their two floating offshore wind farms, MarramWind and CampionWind.
Crown Estate Scotland awarded ScottishPower and Shell joint offers for seabed rights to develop large-scale floating wind farms during the ScotWind leasing round in January. The two sites represent a total of 5 gigawatts off the east and northeast coasts of Scotland.
Destined to be among the first commercial-scale floating offshore windfarms anywhere in the world, the 3-gigawatt MarramWind and 2-gigawatt CampionWind will have the potential to power up to 6 million homes.
“Offshore wind is exactly what’s needed to get more clean, green homegrown electricity onto the grid, so we can reduce our dependency on gas and reach net zero,” said Charlie Jordan, offshore wind director for the United Kingdom and Ireland at ScottishPower. “The signing of our ScotWind option agreements als
