Donald Trump has fought a determined campaign against the EOWDC Photo: PA

Vattenfall 'still committed' to EOWDC, but emphasis may shift

Swedish utility Vattenfall is still confident of building a controversial offshore wind test site in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland, but said the “emphasis” of the project may shift from turbines towards innovations in associated fields such as O&M.

3 March 2015 15:53 GMT Updated 3 March 2015 15:53 GMT

By Andrew Lee in London

Vattenfall is leading the development of the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in the face of determined opposition by Donald Trump, the US billionaire who claims the project will ruin the view from his luxury golf resort.

The 11-turbine scheme was originally due to begin exporting its first power later this year. But legal challenges by Trump and others have bogged the development down, and its grid connection date has since been shunted to 2017.

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