Wind Energy – Floating Wind
Britain’s Crown Estate said to Reuters on Monday it has amended plans for an offshore wind licensing round which aims to create floating wind technology off the coast of Wales and south-west England to make more capacity available to bidders.
The licensing round next year will be the first phase of development in the Celtic Sea.
The Crown Estate oversees the British monarch’s public holdings. It manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland and awards seabed rights for the development of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy.
Under the new plans, three project development areas of roughly equal size, each with a potential capacity of up to 1.5 gigawatts (GW), will be made available to bidders, as opposed to the previously proposed four areas of varying sizes.
The British government aims to deliver up to 5 GW of floating wind power by 2030.
