ScotWind leasing round

Crown Estate Scotland (CES) announced the results of the ScotWind leasing round on the 17th of January 2022. Eleven successful developers and consortia will now deliver the 17 sites which are a mixture of fixed and floating wind projects. The industry were expecting a capacity of around 10GW but the final total capacity for this round was originally (when announced) just under 25GW.

The huge leap in scale was due to the ever increasing size of offshore wind turbines. The Sectoral Offshore Wind Plan had set the hard limit for the round based on total seabed area which was not to exceed 8,600km2. The 17 sites amounted to 7,300km2 and, therefore, although the generating capacity was far in excess of the expected 10GW, the area limit was not breached as the turbine density was far higher than expected under the original plan from more than 4 years ago.

A further Clearing round increased the total number of sites to 20 with three additional projects off the East Coast of the Shetland Isles. This then increased the ScotWind round's total capacity to 27.6GW. Two of the additional sites have now merged into a single project, Arwen, bringing the total number of sites in the ScotWind leasing round to 19 projects. 
A number of the developers have also increased the capacity of their ScotWind lease sites. The table below shows the name of each project along with their capacity increases.

*Lease now relinquished

All of these changes had increased the total capacity to of the ScotWind round to 32.3GW but in November 2025 SPR and Shell moved to take control over CampionWind and MarramWind as separate entities . SPR will now develop MarramWind and Shell has now handed back the lease on the 3GW CampionWind to Crown Estate Scotland. In March 2026 Ocean Winds then relinquished their lease on the 500MW Arven South part of their project in Shetland. This brings the current ScotWind leasing round total capacity to just under 30GW     

The listing below shows the developers on each of the 18 sites along with a map of Scotland showing the position of each lease area. 

Projects on the above map can be selected from the listing on the right or by zooming in and selecting them on the map itself. The "View more details" link will open up a new window showing a list of possible project related milestones. As these milestones are achieved a blue tick will appear beside the list to denote this.

Scrolling down this 'more details' window will reveal more information on the selected offshore wind project.