Fred Olsen Renewables

Fred Olsen Renewables (FOR) is one of the largest independent onshore renewable energy developers, owners and operators in the UK. We have been developing wind farms since 1992, and today have an extensive portfolio of onshore projects within Scotland including 183.5MW already in operation and approximately 258MW awaiting or under construction.

FOR are now proposing to develop an offshore wind farm off the south east Borders coast of Scotland as part of the Scottish Territorial Waters development round. In February 2009, The Crown Estate announced that FOR was one of the nine successful companies or consortia to be awarded one of ten Exclusivity Agreements within Scottish Territorial Waters. The Forth Array site will be developed by FOR under the special purpose company of Forth Array Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary.

The granting of formal Agreement for Lease from the Crown Estate will be subject to the conclusions of the Offshore Wind Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Scottish Territorial Waters commissioned by The Scottish Government.

We already have an onshore project in the area of Forth Array called Crystal Rig windfarm to which construction of a second phase is currently taking place. In addition to projects in Scotland, FOR is also involved in developing offshore windfarms. Our first project, Lillegrund in Sweden, was developed by Eurowind (a Fred.Olsen Renewables company) and subsequently sold to Vattenfall.  Codling Wind Park in Irish territorial waters is a joint venture with Treasury Holdings. http://www.codlingwindpark.ie/. Planning consent for up to 1100MW for this project was awarded in 2005 and construction will commence when a grid connection is secured. An application to extend the project with a further 1GW was made in May 2009 and FOR is currently awaiting the decision from Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.