WSP, one of the UK’s leading engineering and environmental professional services consultancies, is to assess the environmental impact of the proposed MarramWind offshore floating windfarm secured as part of the ScotWind leasing process in Scotland on behalf of ScottishPower Renewables.

MarramWind has submitted the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Scoping Report for the proposed MarramWind project to Marine Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council – the respective planning authorities for the offshore and onshore elements of the proposed project.

Politicians, community organisations, landowners, fisheries representatives, council officials and members of the local community have attended the first public event for the proposed MarramWind floating offshore windfarm.

Communities across the UK and Ireland have benefitted from over £60 million of funding thanks to ScottishPower Renewables windfarms.

ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee Windfarm has been presented with an international Green Flag Award for a third consecutive year. It’s the only windfarm to receive the accolade, which recognises spaces that meet the needs of the communities they serve.

Supply chain businesses from across Scotland packed a special ‘Meet the Buyer’ event in Argyll to hear about the opportunities that could be available thanks to ScottishPower Renewables’ planned MachairWind offshore windfarm.

After almost 30 years of service, Scotland’s first commercial windfarm has been powered down in preparation of the site being supercharged to help meet the UK’s Net Zero targets.

ScottishPower Renewables has been revealed as an Official Supporting Stage Partner for Stage 5 of the Tour of Britain, the UK’s leading cycle race, which will take place in Suffolk – home to the green energy company’s East Anglia offshore windfarm projects.

Community benefits and improved energy security were on the agenda as ScottishPower Renewables hosted a visit to Coal Clough windfarm by Antony Higginbotham MP and Ukranian parliamentary representative Volodymyr Kreidenko.

Residents of New Luce in Dumfries and Galloway have been celebrating the official reopening of the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the village. Like the fate of many pubs The Kenmuir Arms closed its doors five years ago calling time on a social hub for the community.

Islander takes up new community role for MachairWind offshore windfarm

The Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council has appointed industry leader Gillian Noble – who heads up ScottishPower’s offshore development and operations – as Chair of its vital Developer Group.

A Scottish cancer survivor has become the world’s first ‘turbine bagger’ after walking thousands and thousands of steps to tick off all 215 wind turbines at the UK’s largest onshore windfarm – ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee Windfarm – as part of her recovery.

Kate Turner, ScottishPower Renewables’ Director of Policy and Regulation has been re-elected to the Board of Scottish Renewables, the industry body for renewable energy in Scotland.

ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee windfarm is welcoming back wicked witches, ghoulish ghosts and everything in between to celebrate Halloween.

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.

ScottishPower Renewables is participating in a cutting-edge project that’s studying the genetic diversity of one million flying insects from across the UK and could lead to the discovery of undescribed species.

In just seven years’ time, Scotland has committed to reducing carbon emissions by 75% and more than doubling its renewable energy production.