10 May 2022
A new study on the future of offshore wind has illustrated the scale of potential of the UK seas for future deployment and is helping to understand and address how we best manage the various demands on our marine environment. The Future Offshore Wind Scenarios (FOWS) project is intended to support the future development of […]
03 May 2022
The Crown Estate has completed its work on the Plan-Level Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) for Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4. In 2021, The Crown Estate announced that it had selected six proposed new offshore wind projects in the waters around England and Wales through Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4. The Crown Estate has now completed […]
29 Mar 2022
A major tidal project off Anglesey will benefit from £31m of funding in what is likely to be the last large grant from the EU’s regional funding programme. The news has been reported in the BBC and NationCymru. Wales’ Climate Change Minister Julie James confirmed the funding would be given to Menter Môn for the […]
24 Mar 2022
EOI for Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Survey Programme The Crown Estate is an independent commercial business, created by Act of Parliament to manage a portfolio of property, land and marine assets. Our portfolio spans Regent Street and St James’s in London, regional commercial assets, hundreds of thousands of acres of rural land and […]
15 Mar 2022
Reuters have reported that the successful ScotWind partners, ScottishPower and Shell, are set to invest a total of £75 million to help the supply chain and businesses support the growth of the offshore wind industry in Scotland. ScottishPower and Shell were awarded the seabed rights to develop two new floating wind projects through Crown Estate […]
01 Feb 2022
Crown Estate Scotland announced the outcome of its application process for ScotWind Leasing, the first Scottish offshore wind leasing round in over a decade and the first ever since the management of offshore wind rights were devolved to Scotland. Highlights include: 17 projects have been selected out of a total of 74 applications, and have now been […]
25 Aug 2020
Wales’ first floating wind project took a major step forward this week, after the Crown Estate awarded seabed rights to developers to build the 96MW demonstration project in the Celtic Sea. The Crown Estate granted two new leases for windfarms in Welsh waters a demonstration project that involves installing floating wind turbines 27 miles from […]
04 Feb 2019
This publication provides a twenty-year overview of an initiative launched in 1999 as a means of reporting the dredging footprint of the UK marine aggregate industry. It reflects the commitment by members of the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association and The Crown Estate to review both dredging activity and licence areas on an annual basis, […]
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