EMEC Secures Multi-Million Funding for DeepWind Floating Wind Test Site

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has secured GBP 3 million (approximately EUR 3.5 million) from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to advance the development of DeepWind, a planned floating and deepwater offshore wind test site in Scotland.

The two-year funding, awarded through the UK government’s Infrastructure Fund, will support engineering, environmental, regulatory and commercial work needed to bring the project to final investment decision (FID) and prepare it for delivery by 2030.

DeepWind is planned to provide full-scale test and demonstration infrastructure for floating and deepwater wind technologies in an environment representative of the conditions faced by future UK projects. EMEC said existing test sites elsewhere in Europe do not offer the metocean conditions required for many projects in the UK’s deeper waters.

EMEC identified a potential site approximately 20 kilometres west of Orkney earlier this year. The organisation had previously secured GBP 500,000 (approximately EUR 576,000) in funding through The Crown Estate’s Supply Chain Accelerator to carry out feasibility work, design scoping, environmental studies and industry engagement.

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