Electricity
HIGHLAND WIND LIMITED
NOTICE OF DECISION
ELECTRICITY ACT 1989
MARINE (SCOTLAND) ACT 2010
THE ELECTRICITY WORKS (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2017
THE MARINE WORKS (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) REGULATIONS 2017
Notice is hereby given that Highland Wind Limited, registered under company registration SC675148 at 4th Floor 115 George Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, EH2 4JN, has been granted by the Scottish Ministers:
• Consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989;
• Declaration under section 36A of the Electricity Act 1989; and
• Two marine licenses under section 20 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010,
to construct and operate an offshore wind farm and associated ancillary works (including offshore transmission works), with a generating capacity of around 100 megawatts (“MW”) located approximately 7.5 kilometres from the coast of Dounreay, Caithness with a total area of approximately 35.3 squared kilometres (central latitude and longitude coordinates 58o 37.776’ N, 3o 50.422’ W (WGS84)).
The proposed generating station will comprise of up to seven wind turbine generators with a maximum height to blade tip of 300 metres above Highest Astronomical Tide, and a minimum blade tip clearance from mean sea level of 35 metres.
The Scottish Ministers have also made a declaration under section 36A of the Electricity Act 1989 to extinguish the public rights of navigation in so far as they pass through those places within territorial seas where the structures forming part of the offshore generating station are to be located.
The decision notice outlining the reasons and considerations on which the decision is based together with related documentation are available for inspection online at Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm | Marine Scotland Information and Pentland Floating Offshore Windfarm (pentlandfloatingwind.com) or upon written request to: The Scottish Government, Marine Directorate Licensing Operations Team, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road, Aberdeen, AB11 9DB.