Wind Energy

The state previously set a target for 3.500MW of offshore wind energy generation by 2030.

A group of companies have joined together to forge an offshore wind industry in the North of Scotland that will take expertise from the north-east around the globe.

Researchers have identified every potentially feasible location of onshore wind energy in the region.

Orbital Marine Power has awarded the multi-million-pound manufacturing contract for its ‘O2’ tidal stream turbine to TEXO Group. which will build the technology at its quayside facilities in Dundee.

PacifiCorp is to repower the state’s first commercial wind farm with modernised. more efficient turbines.

The Haliade-X 12MW offshore turbine blade is bigger than nine London buses or the pitch at Wembley Stadium.

The West Bakr Wind project will have a capacity of 252MW and is expected to produce enough renewable electricity to power around 350.000 homes.

The state intends to use evidence-based environmental and commercial fishing related research to help advance offshore wind development.

They will be located in six autonomous communities and generate enough electricity to power around 360.000 homes.

Oil and gas-rich Russia in 2013 had started to hold annual renewable tenders to reach 5.4GW in renewable energy capacity by 2024.