Industry advocacy body the Friends of Floating Offshore Wind (FOFOW) has given a mixed review to the UK Crown Estate’s newly-scoped offshore wind leasing plans, for choosing marine acreage that is “unlikely to present an opportunity” for the fast-emerging sector.
While broadly welcoming the opening of virgin leasing regions off Britain, the group, which includes eleven floating wind developers and technology companies, is concerned that a key plank in the UK seabed landlord’s proposal – a focus on sites “within predefined but relatively wide regions of seabed” – will skew in favour of bottom-fixed projects.
