Ocean Winds has received full onshore planning consent for its Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm. Following a meeting of Aberdeenshire Council’s Infrastructure Services Committee, the local authority approved the cable infrastructure required to connect the 2 GW project to the national electricity transmission grid. Onshore construction is scheduled to begin in 2028.
The approval covers an underground cable corridor of around 3 kilometres connecting the consented Caledonia substation at Burnside to the planned new SSEN Transmission substation at Greens. The connection will allow electricity generated by the wind farm to be fed into the grid. The cable link will be installed underground, avoiding permanent visual impact.
Ocean Winds secured development rights for Caledonia in the Scottish Government’s ScotWind leasing round in 2021. The project is located in the Moray Firth adjacent to the company’s operational Moray East and Moray West offshore wind farms.
