TotalEnergies has joined forces with Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) to bid for offshore wind sites in the 10GW ScotWind lease round.
The Offshore Wind Power Ltd (OWPL) consortium will bring together the partners’ “extensive expertise” to leverage Scotland’s domestic supply chain and deliver “world-class developments that will accelerate the country’s energy transition”.
TotalEnergies is one of the largest offshore operators on the UK continental shelf. In Scotland, it has a majority stake in the 1140MW Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm located off the east coast of Scotland, which is under construction.
GIG has invested around £625m in Scotland since 2012, while Macquarie Group, GIG’s parent company, has supported “almost half” of the UK’s offshore wind capacity in operation.
RIDG, a Scottish offshore wind developer with decades of sector experience, has been working closely with local and national stakeholders since 2016 to bring forward project opportunities into the ScotWind leasing process.
TotalEnergies is targeting the development of 35GW of gross renewable generation capacity by 2025 and 100GW by 2030.
GIG has over 250 projects under development and construction, with a pipeline of more than 30GW, and is developing or has invested in over 20 offshore wind projects around the world with a cumulative capacity of over 12GW.
In February 2021, GIG and TotalEnergies secured rights to a seabed lease in the Eastern Regions zone in the Crown Estate’s England and Wales Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 to develop a 1.5GW offshore wind project.
The companies are also working together in South Korea to co-develop a portfolio of floating offshore wind projects with a potential cumulated capacity of more than 2GW.
GIG Europe head Ed Northam said: “The addition of TotalEnergies to our bidding consortium brings together a team who have a long track record in delivering major infrastructure projects in challenging environments – a key requirement given the growing scale and complexity of the next generation of fixed bottom and floating offshore wind farm projects.”