UK supply chain events planned for Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm
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The developers of a wind farm off the north coast of Caithness are organising a series of events in different parts of the UK where they will speak to "as many suppliers as possible".
The aim is to introduce the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF) and outline the opportunities available to suppliers on what will be the largest project of its kind in the world when complete.
The events will include a webinar on September 8 as well as live events in Aberdeen and Sunderland in October and November centred around the Floating Offshore Wind and Offshore Wind North East 2022 conferences.
These will be followed by further events in 2023 in the Highlands and the south-west of England at which tier one contractors will have an opportunity to meet the buyer and learn more about the work packages available.
The scheme, if consented, will see seven turbines up to 300m high to their blade tips, built around 7.5km offshore from Dounreay. The wind farm is due to be operational in 2026.
It is being developed by Highland Wind Limited, which is majority owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) through one of its funds.
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) carries out offshore wind development and construction on behalf of the funds managed by CIP.
A pre-application notice has been submitted to Highland Council for the onshore infrastructure related to the development.
Project director Richard Copeland said: “Pentland is a key project for driving forward floating offshore wind in Scotland, the UK and globally. It will demonstrate new technological solutions which will reduce costs and will accelerate industrialisation.
"Nurturing the development of a local floating offshore wind supply chain in the UK is really important to us, and we’re excited to start outlining what the project will involve and opportunities available.
"These events will allow us to speak to as many suppliers as possible across the series of events and open these discussions.”
The events are being organised in collaboration with the UK energy business development group NOF.
NOF chief executive Joanne Leng said: “We are extremely proud to be working with the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm project. I expect to see a huge amount of interest in this project from the UK supply chain working with COP and through collaboration with the various other offshore wind clusters.”
The supply chain portal for the events is also live for registrations of interest and suppliers can receive updates on upcoming events and other project milestones by submitting their details.
