RWE Innogy and SeaEnergy Renewables have announced that they have been awarded the preferred bidder status to progress plans for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm, in the outer Tay Estuary.
According to the company, the bid as part of the Crown Estate’s Scottish Territorial Waters call, means that RWE Innogy’s UK business, npower renewables, in collaboration with Aberdeen-based SeaEnergy Renewables has the right to undertake further studies into the feasibility of a 905MW offshore wind farm, 15.5km east off the Angus coastline.
Joel Staadecker, CEO of SeaEnergy said: “We are delighted with the outcome of the Scottish offshore wind application process. As one of the few indigenous Scottish offshore development companies, we look forward to working with power renewables to help meet the Scottish government’s renewables energy targets.”
Earlier RWE Innogy said that RWE Power is taking an innovative path in power generation with a pilot project that is unique in Europe: “Power Barges”. Environmentally-friendly, ultra-modern combined-cycle gas turbine power stations will be erected on floating pontoons that will be flexibly moved and deployed between the various destinations.
The company said that, the first RWE power barges are expected to be available from 2010. Possible areas of use are, for example, in bordering countries in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the Black Sea, i.e. regions in which the company is already active.
