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.
MachairWind Offshore Development
Generating 100% green energy
ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) is excited to be developing the MachairWind project off the coast of Argyll – our first offshore windfarm of its kind in Scottish waters. MachairWind has a proposed generating capacity of 2GW, which is enough clean, green electricity to power the equivalent of more than 2 million homes across the UK.
Find out more out the MachairWind Project below
Project Timeline
Development Phase
April 2022
Option to Lease Agreement signed with Crown Estate Scotland
April 2023
Deployment of metocean buoys
Q3 2023 - 2024
Site Investigation (geotechnical and geophysical) Surveys
Mid 2020's
Project Consent
Construction Phase
Late 2020's
Contstruction Starts.
Operation & Maintenance Phase
Future
Operatoin & Maintenance for 25 years (until late 2060's)
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 seabed lease area – which was set out by Crown Estate Scotland – is shown on the map below as the ‘Crown Estate Scotland 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.