Seagreen
Wind farm became operational
Number of turbines
Total operational capacity
Overview
Seagreen is Scotland's largest offshore wind farm, has the deepest fixed bottom foundations of any wind farm in the world and was one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken in Scotland.
It is located around 27km off the coast of Angus in the North Sea and is a £3bn joint venture between TotalEnergies (51%) and SSE Renewables (49%).
SSE Renewables led the development and construction of the joint venture project, supported by TotalEnergies, and is operating Seagreen during it's operational lifetime.
First power was achieved in August 2022 and Seagreen became fully operational in October 2023.
Seagreen is capable of generating enough green energy to power more than 1.6 million homes, equivalent to two-thirds of all Scottish homes. Seagreen is able to displace over 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from electricity generated by fossil fuels every year – which is similar to removing more than a third of all of Scotland’s annual car emissions and making a significant contribution to Scotland’s net-zero ambition by 2045*.
Seagreen secured a 15-year CfD contract in 2019, for 454MW and the Final Investment Decision was reached on 3 June 2020 providing the green light for construction to begin.
Foundation installation commenced in October 2021 followed by the installation of the Vestas V164-10 MW turbines which began in December 2021.
Delivering for people and businesses
Seagreen Community Benefit Fund
The Seagreen Community Benefit Fund has been established to benefit communities located in parts of Angus who have some impact from construction of the project.
A total of £1.8m will be invested in local projects over the next few years.
Delivering for people and businesses
Port of Nigg
Seagreen supported up to 141 skilled jobs at Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg in Tain near Inverness, Scotland for the marshalling, storage and logistics of the 114 wind turbine foundations destined for Seagreen.
The 141 jobs included work for 93 permanent roles already on-site as well as the creation of an additional 48 new roles which have been recruited at the port, delivering a green jobs boost to the Scottish Highlands.
Delivering for people and businesses
Montrose
Up to 30 new jobs were created with local Angus contracting firm Pert-Bruce during construction of the Seagreen Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base at Montrose Port.
The O&M base will be home to approximately 80 full-time (direct) operational roles including up to 60 Vestas personnel working to maintain the turbines both from the O&M base and on offshore 'Service Operations Vessels'.
| Staying in touch and more information | |
| Contact details | [email protected] / 07880 180 662 |
| For more information, please visit Seagreen's dedicated website: | www.seagreenwindenergy.com |
| X (formerly Twitter): | @SeagreenWind |
*1.62 million homes powered per annum based on Typical Domestic Consumption Values (Medium Electricity Profile Class 1, 2,900kWh per household; OFGEM, January 2020), typical 50% wind load factor, and projected installed capacity of up to 1.1GW. Two-thirds of homes in Scotland based on Household Estimates Scotland 2019 (National Records of Scotland, June 2020). Quoted 2.23m t/CO2 reductions per annum based on expected annual output against average 446 t/CO2 per GWh (BEIS Digest of UK Energy Statistics, July 2020). Quoted removal of cars based on projected annual carbon abated and calculated against recorded average of 5.89m t/CO2 by cars on roads in Scotland in 2017 (Carbon Account for Transport 2019, Transport Scotland).