Consultations have been launched for the BlueFloat and Renantis partnership’s Scotland offshore wind farms, with a scoping request and Habitats Rules Evaluation screening report submitted to the Marine Directorate for the Broadshore Hub Wind Farm Growth Areas.
Primarily based in Edinburgh, the partnership has a 3.3 GW portfolio of floating offshore tasks in Scotland: 900 MW in Broadshore, 1.2 GW in Bellrock and the 1 GW Stromar mission in improvement by a collaboration with Ørsted.
The scoping request seeks an opinion from the Scottish ministers on the scope and element to be supplied within the Broadshore Hub’s EIA. The Habitats Rules Evaluation screening report offers data on its potential influence to nature conservation areas.
A collection of public session occasions are being held by the Broadshore Hub and Bellrock mission till Feb. 9.
“Stakeholder suggestions supplied to the Marine Directorate will enable Scottish ministers to undertake probably the most strong scoping opinion doable and inform essential points of the Broadshore Hub’s EIA, which in flip will enhance the standard of the EIA,” says Brian McGrellis, head of consents and land for the Broadshore Hub and Bellrock mission.
“We very a lot recognize stakeholders taking time to assessment the scoping report and screening report and submitting feedback to the Marine Directorate. While these tasks are at an early stage of improvement, our session occasions are a possibility for native communities and stakeholders to satisfy our improvement workforce, discover out extra about our tasks and importantly present suggestions which will help form our tasks going ahead.”
