ScottishPower Renewables is transforming East Anglia into a world leader in offshore wind energy. Find out more about our ambitions to develop four projects across the zone we were awarded as part of The Crown Estate’s Round 3 process.
Below you will find a summary of all the latest updates to our East Anglia projects: East Anglia ONE, East Anglia ONE NORTH, East Anglia TWO and East Anglia THREE. You can also view the latest updates on public information days, construction, and notices to mariners.
02/04/2024 |
ScottishPower Renewables is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all at Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre. That’s why we offer Autism Friendly Sessions.
20/03/2024 | East Anglia News|East Anglia THREE
The 159MW power purchase agreement at East Anglia THREE expands clean energy partnership on journey to net zero
08/03/2024 |
Rachel Beedie, East Anglia THREE foundations package manager at ScottishPower Renewables, explains why 2024 is a landmark year for SPR.
05/03/2024 |
This International Women’s Day, we have spoken with our MachairWind project team and their experience working in a predominately female-led project and wider project support.
01/03/2024 |
ScottishPower Renewables welcomed Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP, to the ‘beating heart’ of its offshore wind operations today (1 March) to hear first-hand about the difference its multi-billion green investment is making across the East of England.
25/01/2024 | East Anglia News|Press releases
The onshore works for ScottishPower Renewables’ (SPR) East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm will be discussed at a series of public information days next month.
13/12/2023 |
Communities across the UK and Ireland have benefitted from over £60 million of funding thanks to ScottishPower Renewables windfarms.
20/11/2023 | East Anglia News|Press releases
ScottishPower Renewables’ first-ever offshore wind apprentice is an apprentice no more after being appointed as a balance of plant technician at the green energy company’s flagship UK offshore windfarm.
24/10/2023 |
ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee windfarm is welcoming back wicked witches, ghoulish ghosts and everything in between to celebrate Halloween.
12/10/2023 |
Children and young people cross Islay, Jura and Colonsay got to learn all about offshore wind during the October school holidays at special STEM* education events organised by ScottishPower Renewables’ MachairWind project team and Fugro, the company carrying out metocean, wind resource and geophysical surveys for the proposed windfarm.
MachairWind Offshore Development
Generating 100% green energy
ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) is excited to be developing the MachairWind project located Northwest of Islay and West of Colonsay. Machair is a Scottish Gaelic word meaning ‘fertile low-lying grassy plain’. MachairWind is our first offshore windfarm of its kind in Scottish waters, with a generating capacity of 2 Gigawatts - enough clean, green electricity to power the equivalent of up to 2 million homes across the UK.
Find out more out the MachairWind Project below
Location
Crown Estate Scotland has awarded SPR the rights to develop an offshore wind farm within an area of seabed that is located north-west of Islay and west of Colonsay.
The Option Area which SPR has been granted the rights to develop is large, but in forthcoming years we will carry out surveys across this area that will enable us to identify the most suitable location for the final MachairWind wind farm array within that bigger Option Area.
The windfarm itself will only cover a part of this area and its exact location will be informed by survey works that will be conducted over the coming months and years.
ScottishPower Renewables is excited to be developing the MachairWind project off the coast of Argyll – our first offshore windfarm of its kind in Scottish waters. Crown Estate Scotland has awarded SPR the rights to develop an offshore wind farm within an area of seabed that is located north-west of Islay and west of Colonsay.