Crown Estate agreements struck for 5.8 GW of UK offshore wind

The 970-MW Navitus Bay offshore wind scheme and Forewind’s 4.8-GW Dogger Bank projects have reached agreements with the Crown Estate, the body managing the UK seabed, for the project-specific areas.

In 2009, a number of developer got exclusive rights to areas of UK seabed in order to identify the locations most suitable for large-scale offshore wind projects. Now developer focus is turning to the development and delivery of these projects so the zone development agreements are being replaced by project-specific deals with the Crown Estate.

EDF Energy Renewables and Eneco are the companies behind the Navitus Bay Development Ltd consortium for the Navitus Bay Wind Farm Park. The project in the West Isle of Wight Zone is awaiting approval next month.

Forewind, meanwhile, is made up of RWE AG, SSE PLC and Norwegian companies Statkraft ASA and Statoil ASA. It will develop only the already-consented 2.4-GW Creyke Beck A & B offshore wind projects and the 2.4-GW Teesside A & B schemes, all in the Dogger Bank Zone.

In its press release today, the Crown Estate said it is also in advanced discussions with the ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall as regards to similar deals within the East Anglia Zone. The companies just announced they have decided to each develop separate projects there.

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