Partnership to progress wind bids

Offshore wind projects are planned off the Scottish coast

A consortium has been formed by a Scottish company and the world's fourth largest wind power operator to push forward offshore wind projects.

Aberdeen-based SeaEnergy and EDP Renewables have submitted bids with the Crown Estate to develop sites in UK waters.

The successful bidders will be announced later this year.

SeaEnergy and other partners already have licences to develop projects in the Moray Firth and Tay Estuary.

The Moray Firth site centres around the Beatrice oil and gas field where two experimental turbines were installed between 2006 and 2007.

However, as many as 200 could be erected on the site nine miles off the north east coast of Scotland.

The Inchcape Offshore Wind Farm project site is located 10 miles off the Tayside coast.

SeaEnergy is a subsidiary of Ramco Energy.

EDPR, meanwhile, is the wind energy arm of Energias de Portugal.

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