OFFSHORE WIND FARMS & RENEWABLES
Scottish Offshore Wind Industry Signs up to Collaborative Framework Charter to Support Supply Chain Growth
• First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP announced details of signatories to the SOWEC Collaborative Framework, as part of her keynote speech at the All Energy conference and exhibition in Glasgow.
• The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) is a partnership between the Scottish public sector and the offshore wind industry, and is coordinating discussions between offshore wind developers and Scottish ports to maximise opportunities for strategic investment.
• New ScotWind leaseholders have joined existing Scottish offshore wind developers in signing up to a Collaborative Framework Charter, agreeing to work jointly together to build a pipeline of supply chain work greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Recently the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP announced the new signatories of the SOWEC Collaborative Framework Charter. The announcement was made as part of the First Minister’s speech at the All Energy Conference and Exhibition in Glasgow.
24 organisations, representing almost 25GW of ScotWind projects with an estimated value of £1.5bn per GW have agreed to work together in the development and delivery of this Collaborative Framework. These and other signatories are also responsible for a further 6.7GW of other Scottish
projects either in construction or under development.
Work on this Collaborative Framework is being coordinated by the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC), a partnership between Scottish Government and agencies and the offshore wind industry. Industry participants have signed up to an associated Charter, agreeing to support SOWEC’s work.
To capitalise on the opportunity of ScotWind, investment is needed in Scottish ports. 2021’s Strategic Investment Assessment, led by Professor Sir Jim McDonald, set out a series of recommendations for how Government and industry needed to work together to secure this investment. These recommendations have been accepted by SOWEC, and include a recommendation that developers work together through a Collaborative Framework to engage Scottish ports, with an initial focus being fabrication and manufacture for floating platforms and foundations.
SOWEC began work on the Collaborative Framework in autumn 2021, with developer members agreeing a set of principles to guide action. These principles have been reviewed and agreed by ScotWind lease winners and existing developers.
Alongside this work, the Scottish Government, enterprise agencies and SOWEC have been engaging Scottish ports to look at how best to involve ports in collaborative discussions with developers.
The 24 developers signing up to this Charter will now work jointly together to review the pipeline of Scottish
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offshore wind projects and identify ways they can work together to maximise how they work with Scottish ports to share capacity and space and also help underpin new investment.
Full List of Charter Signatories: • BayWa r.e; • BlueFloat Energy; • BP; • BW Ideol; • Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners; • Corio Generation; • EdF Renewables; • Fred. Olsen Seawind; • Falck; • Elicio; • EnBW; • Magnora Offshore Wind; • Marubeni; • Northland; • Ocean Winds; • Orsted; • Red Rock Power; • RIDG; • ScottishPower Renewables; • Shell; • SSE Renewables; • Thistle Wind Partners; • TotalEnergies; • Vattenfall.
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