According to RenewableUK, Global floating offshore wind capacity has grown by 13% over the past year to 277MW, as published in their latest EnergyPulse Insights Floating Offshore Wind report.
Europe accounts for 60% of global floating capacity with the UK representing 14% of that total, across 39 projects. Of this, 84% is located in Scottish waters.
RenewableUK head of floating and deepwater wind Luke Clark said: “Floating wind has the potential to be one of Britain’s biggest industrial success stories of this century, employing 97,000 people by 2050, with many of the jobs based in Scottish and Welsh ports, contributing £47 billion to our economy by building and supplying projects here as well as exporting our cutting-edge technology worldwide.”
Find out more about the report at RenewableUK.
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