Scotland made headlines yesterday (17 January) by awarding seabed lease rights to 17 offshore wind projects totalling almost 25 GW in capacity, well beyond the expected 10 GW, and by the fact that more than half of this massive capacity is coming from floating wind farms.

With many details about the selected proposals yet to be made known – just like the developers’ supply chain commitments which will be published once option agreements are officially signed this Spring – what we know so far about the floating wind projects is that the total capacity they account for is 15,071 MW of the total 24,826 MW, along with some of the project details the developers released yesterday as well as during the ScotWind application period.