The Crown Estate has been working with stakeholders to develop initial plans for a Marine Delivery Routemap. The Marine Delivery Routemap report outlines how The Crown Estate is collaborating with partners to create a Routemap that provides a coordinated, long-term view for meeting future demands on the UK seabed – enabling the growth of offshore industries to support net zero ambitions, while enhancing the marine environment and providing onshore community benefits
The development of a Routemap was one of the key recommendations published in last year’s independent report from Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser.
As The Crown Estate continues to build the Routemap it intends to produce a series of sector-specific updates, looking at how they can evolve over the years ahead.
The first of these sector updates is offshore wind and this is expected to be followed with reports on nature, carbon capture and other sectors.
As the first of a series of accompanying sector reports, the Future of Offshore Wind report presents The Crown Estate’s early thinking on how to move to a more strategic approach to leasing the seabed for offshore wind deployment for additional capacity for delivery out to 2040 in support of the UK’s net zero and energy security ambitions.
Much of the new offshore wind capacity is expected to be in areas of the Celtic Sea, which lies off the coasts of South Wales and South West England, and North East England. A number of smaller projects are also likely off the coasts of North Wales, North West England, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The precise approach to development remains under consideration but is expected to include a mix of fixed and floating foundations.
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