Yesterday’s (Thursday 31 July) decision by The Scottish Government to grant consent for the offshore array of Berwick Bank Wind Farm is hugely welcome. This marks the last major consent necessary for this ground-breaking project to move forward.
I’m very proud we’ve reached this milestone in the project’s development. Our team at SSE Renewables has developed a fantastic project which will boost Scotland’s operational renewable electricity capacity by nearly 25% and that’s down to more than a decade of meticulous development and design work by our team.
Berwick Bank Wind Farm is a truly consequential project. At more than 4GW, Berwick Bank has the potential to play a pivotal role in meeting the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 mission, as well as Scotland’s climate and decarbonisation goals.
Berwick Bank has the potential to rapidly scale up Scotland’s operational renewable energy capacity and accelerate the delivery of homegrown, affordable and secure clean energy to UK consumers.
This is a major step forward for Scotland, for the UK, and for the clean energy transition.