Floating Wind in Scotland

Floating Wind in Scotland

Information on floating wind projects, and their developers, in Scottish waters

An advantageous history

Scotland has a long history of developing floating systems with over 50 years of oil and gas heritage and innovation to our name. This expertise is now being put to further use in the floating offshore wind sector.

Scotland is a world leader in the deployment of floating wind with two of the world's largest operational floating wind farms, Hywind Scotland and Kincardine. Three more have planning permission from the Scottish Government, Pentland and Salamander are both 100MW projects and will be aiming to secure Contract for Difference (CFD) awards in the up and coming UK Allocation Round 7 (AR7) later this year (2025). The third project is the 560MW Green Volt wind farm, part of the INTOG leasing round, which has already secured a CFD in AR6 and will become the world's first commercial scale floating wind farm when built in 2027.

The announcement of the winning projects in the ScotWind and INTOG leasing rounds has added just over 27GW of demonstration and commercial scale floating wind to our pipeline making Scotland the largest floating wind market in the world. Details of all these projects can be found in this section.

Floating Wind Projects with Map

The project list and map below shows the current operational, development and pipeline floating wind projects in Scotland.

All of the related project developers and consortia are also given in the list against their specific wind farm developments. The bulk of these projects are from the ScotWind leasing round and this project list has grown larger with the addition of further floating wind farms from the INTOG or Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas leasing round.

This has now added another 12 floating projects to this existing list with an additional capacity of up to 5.4GW. The successful bidders in this round are listed in our INTOG section of the web site.

Scottish Floating Wind Projects Map

*hover / touch to see more information Map showing floating wind projects with project list (updated Aug 2025)

Floating wind - the big numbers

The headline figures for the Scottish market

Floating wind capacity in Scottish pipeline

Investment

1,500+

Floating substructures

6,000+

Anchors

Buchan Deep The World’S First Floating Windfarm 20 Miles Off Peterhead Small Image M21744

Floating turbine at the Kincardine offshore wind farm

Hywind Scotland project off the East Coast of Scotland

Floating wind projects in Scotland

Scotland is home to the two largest floating wind farms in the world, Hywind Scotland and the Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm. These will soon be joined by the Pentland and Salamander projects along with the world's largest, the 560MW Green Volt project

Flotation Energy

The world's largest commercial floating wind farm, the 560MW Green Volt project, is being developed in Scotland by Flotation Energy, a wholly owed subsidiary of Japan's TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co). The project is one of the INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas) lease sites linked to de-carbonising production energy on oil and gas facilities in the North Sea. The company aims to tap Scotland's oil and gas supply chain skill set to help deliver their floating wind project.
Flotation Energy have secured planning permission for Green Volt from the Scottish Government and a Contract for Difference award from UK Government and aim to have the project operational by 2027/28.

“Green Volt has cemented that it’s becoming a project that is going to be delivered by companies with an oil and gas track record, utilising many oil and gas contractors on a decommissioned oil and gas field in the North Sea. It’s gone back to its roots.”

Matt Green, Project Director

Location: Edinburgh and Aberdeen
Business Size: Owned by TEPCO, largest utility company in Japan
Website: greenvoltoffshorewind.com/