Local knowledge, global expertise
Our vision
Introducing the partnership
This unique and powerful combination of floating offshore wind experience coupled with local knowledge and global expertise, underpinned by a firm commitment to sustainability, places the Project Partners in an unrivalled position to deliver the Ossian wind project. Significant works have already been completed to ensure that the project can be delivered at speed to respond to the climate emergency.
SSE Renewables Limited (SSER), Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) (the Project Partners) are combining their unparalleled local experience and extensive global expertise in the development of offshore wind farms to deliver significant and enduring social, economic, and decarbonisation benefits to the UK.
About SSE
Renewables
SSER is a leading developer, owner and operator of renewable energy projects and assets across the UK and Ireland with a portfolio of around 4GW of operational offshore wind, onshore wind and hydro sites. SSER has a secured 13GW pipeline in development, this includes; new offshore wind, onshore wind and hydro projects, including the largest offshore wind pipeline in the UK and Ireland at over 6GW.
Its operational offshore wind portfolio consists of 487MW across two offshore joint venture sites (Beatrice and Greater Gabbard), both of which it operates on behalf of its joint venture partners.
SSER is currently constructing the world’s largest offshore wind energy project, the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea, as well as Scotland’s largest and the world's deepest fixed bottom offshore site, the 1.1GW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm in the Firth of Forth. SSER is also at the planning stage of the Berwick Bank Wind Farm, which will be one of the world’s largest wind farm developments once built, generating up to 4.1GW of power, with the planning application submitted to the Scottish Government in December 2022.
SSE Renewables is leading the transition to a net zero future through the world-class development, construction and operation of renewable power assets. Part of UK-listed SSE plc, it will treble renewable energy capacity to over 13GW by 2031, increasing output fivefold to over 50TWh annually.
About Marubeni
Marubeni Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate with extensive interests in power generation and renewable energy. The company has built considerable offshore wind experience since its first investment into offshore wind in 2011 as the first Japanese IPP to enter the UK offshore wind market.
Marubeni brings a wealth of sector experience of delivering floating offshore wind to the consortium, including leading floating offshore wind demonstration projects in Japan with five different floating foundations. The Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm was operational between 2013 and 2020, consisting of three floating turbines, with total capacity of 14MW, and one floating substation installed 20km off the coast of Naraha-town (Fukushima prefecture). The Kitakyushu Floating Offshore Wind Farm began operating in 2019, consisting of one floating turbine installed 15km off the coast of Kitayushu-city (Fukuoka prefecture).
Marubeni managed the project consortiums for these projects, as well as taking a lead role in consenting and permitting, economics analysis, operation and maintenance, and coordination with fisheries gaining significant experience across the full project lifecycle of floating wind, including the decommissioning process.
Marubeni has also been instrumental in the delivery of Japan’s first large-scale bottom fixed offshore wind farms at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita Prefecture as part of the Akita Offshore Wind Corporation. As part of this project, Marubeni was responsible for development, construction, operation and maintenance, and financing of the project, with the Akita Port and Noshiro Port wind farms reaching commercial operation in December 2022 and January 2023 respectively.
Marubeni Corporation is the Tokyo stock exchange listed conglomerate with extensive interests in power generation and renewable energy. To find out more about Marubeni latest projects, visit their corporate website.
About CIP - Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is a fund management company specialised in offering tailor-made investments in energy infrastructure assets globally within the renewables and greenfield sectors.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is a trusted partner in projects across a wide range of technologies including offshore wind, onshore wind, solar PV, biomass, energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity and storage, and other energy assets, such as Power-to-X. They are known for execution certainty, with projects completed on budget and to specification.
In the north of Scotland, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is developing both a floating demonstration project up to 10MW and a floating wind farm with a capacity of up to 100MW off the coast of Dounreay in the Pentland Firth. Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is managing the development, design, EPC and O&M of these projects on an exclusive basis for CIP and provides resources and know-how to the ScotWind Project Partners.
CIP manages ten funds and has approximately EUR 18 billion under management. CIP was founded in 2012 by senior executives from the energy industry in cooperation with PensionDanmark. Today CIP’s funds have approximately 100 international institutional investors from the Nordics, Continental Europe, the UK, Israel, Asia, Australia, and North America and multi-lateral organisations e.g., European Investment Bank (EIB).
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is a fund management company specialised in offering tailor-made investments in energy infrastructure assets globally within renewables and the greenfield segment. To find out more about CiP latest projects, visit their corporate website.
