“The Crown Estate will directly invest up to £1.4m ($2.16m) in key surveys and reports for the Inch Cape project, which will be directly contracted and managed by SERL,” the company says in a statement. The deal formalises a Heads of Terms agreement announced in September.

A consortium made up of Germany's RWE Npower Renewables and SERL won rights to the Inch Cape site in 2009 as part of the Scottish Territorial Round tender carried out by the Crown Estate.

But