ANALYSIS: Salmond shaping Scotland's offshore landscape

Contracting for the first big Round 3 UK wind farms is getting real at last, with different stages of tendering under way for the most advanced projects

In Scotland, the consortium comprising EDP Renováveis (EDPR) and Repsol is due to tender for the first phases of the Moray Firth zone, along with its Inch Cape project.

Industry sources say it is highly unlikely the Scottish government will accept imported turbines for the bulk of the two projects’ supply needs, particularly given a small but significant level of public opposition to the proposed wind farms. Alex Salmond’s administration, while perhaps not making it a formal stipulation, has various means to ensure a Scotland-first policy.

This puts Spanish turbine maker…

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