The Crown Estate has awarded seabed rights to Equinor and the Gwynt Glas joint venture between EDF Renewables UK and ESB to develop two 1500MW floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea.
The winners were selected following the conclusion of Round 5 of the UK’s offshore wind leasing programme, which is the first to target floating technology at commercial scale.
Each bidder will pay an annual option fee of £350 per megawatt, or £525,000 per year in total.
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