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SSE Renewables backs green energy NOW and for the future
As the UK continues to drive innovation and development within the renewable energy field, it is exciting to watch projects progress through the design and development stages. In recent news, SSE Renewables has committed substantial funding to facilitate growth of offshore wind infrastructure at the Port of Nigg facility near Inverness in Scotland with £15m debt investment. SSE’s substantial, multi-million-pound investment in NOW-Nigg Offshore Wind, a new £110m offshore wind turbine tower factory in the Scottish Highlands that will produce the next generation of offshore wind farms to power Scotland and the world – will help create hundreds of full-time direct and thousands of indirect green jobs. This will be the most significant localisation of offshore wind supply chain manufacturing ever built in Scotland and the UK.
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What’s the project? Global Energy Group (GEG) and Haizea Wind Group are building what will be the UK’s largest offshore wind tower manufacturing facility at the Port of Nigg. It will be an impressive 450-meterlong, 38,000m2 factory that can fabricate towers of over 1,000 tonnes. Nigg Offshore Wind (NOW) will provide significant support to the offshore fixed and floating wind industries across the UK, boasting the capabilities and resources to build as many as 135 towers annually and other important structures like transitions pieces, suction buckets and bespoke tubular solutions. It will prove hugely advantageous to the many projects being designed and already under development in Scotland by localising a substantial aspect of the offshore wind manufacturing supply chain.
The project is being supported by an array of organisations aside from SSE Renewables, with the funding syndicate including Sequoia Infrastructure Debt Fund and Mainstream Renewable Power. The Scottish Government also provided funding through the Highlands and Islands Enterprise, as did the UK Government through the offshore wind manufacturing investment support scheme. Construction has been scheduled to start January 2022, with site preparation, building and commissioning anticipated for the following 18 months.
Putting money where its mouth is SSE Renewables has made this state-ofthe-art project possible by committing to a debt investment of £15 million, making it the largest single UK backer behind the plans. In addition to driving the sector forwards as a whole, this will put SSE Renewables in an unrivalled position within the sector to optimise UK supply chain opportunities for the future. The organisation is involved
