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Powering <span>Scotland's</span> future through <span>renewable</span> energy

Powering Scotland's future through renewable energy

Moray East is a highly competitive offshore wind project which was granted consent (1,116MW) in 2014 by the Scottish Government. In 2017 it won a 950MW contract for difference at competitive auction which set the price of power generated at £57.50 per MWhr, and will be delivered early in the next decade.

Millions of tonnes

of CO2 can be saved over the lifetime of our offshore wind farm. Offshore wind farms have the advantage of accessing higher wind speeds and mitigating the main concern of wind turbines. The Moray East wind farm will join one of very few, large scale wind farms in Scotland, and be able to power approximately one million homes. This will save a large amount of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year when compared to gas fired power plants. 

Helping to supply UK homes with renewable energy

The electrical power generated by the wind turbines will be collected offshore via buried inter-array cables to three offshore substations where the electricity is stepped up in voltage and exported onshore via three export cables. The onshore cables entering the substation of New Deer will further regulate the voltage to transmission level and to transmit the 950MW of electricity onto the National Grid network. The national grid is a transmission system for electricity, where it gathers electricity from a power station to homes and businesses in the UK.

The offshore and onshore substations and the export cables are collectively known as the ‘OFTO’.  As required by law, the OFTO assets were sold in early 2024 to Transmission Capital Partners (TCP) https://www.transmissioncapital.com/ who are now the asset managers for the OFTO infrastructure .