Public consultation

Our first virtual wind farm Array public consultation concluded on Monday 19 February 2024. Over the course of the month, we hosted four virtual live question and answer sessions and a drop-in session that covered project introduction, environmental assessments, supply chain and human environment.

You can find out more here.

As part of our responsible project development, we are committed to undertaking extensive and ongoing engagement with all stakeholders.  

Development

The engineering team is analysing site data gathered from geophysical and geotechnical surveys as well as metocean and FLiDAR equipment, to gain a more thorough understanding of the Ossian wind farm site.  Alongside this, the development team are managing environmental studies, including site specific bird and marine mammal surveys and benthic surveys which will feed into the Environmental Impact Assessment for the project.

The project will be dividing the consent applications as follows:

  1. Offshore Array – which will focus solely on the wind farm site.

  2. Cable transmission – which will focus on the offshore export cable corridor and the onshore transmission infrastructure.

Ossian is being developed with a focus on early engagement with stakeholders, ensuring that key statutory and non-statutory bodies are updated as the project progresses.

Project Timeline

2023

  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Scoping Report for the Ossian Array submitted to and opinion received from Marine Scotland setting out the approach to defining the environmental baseline and undertaking the EIA.

  • Completion of two years of ornithology and marine mammal digital aerial surveys.

  • Ongoing consultation with statutory and non-statutory stakeholders.

  • Outcome of Holistic Network Design (HND) run by National Grid ESO for Ossian’s grid connection(s)

Offshore Array Scoping Submission in March 2023: The Project has submitted an EIA Scoping Request to Marine Scotland which can be viewed here.

To view the digital EIA Scoping Request please click the link: https://ossian-eia.com/

2024

  • Submission of consent application and Environmental Impact Assessments to Marine Scotland for the Ossian Array.

  • Prepare the EIA Scoping Report for the offshore export cable corridors.

  • Submit the EIA Scoping Report for the offshore export cable corridors.

  • Complete benthic and geophysical surveys of the offshore export cable corridors.

  • NGESO ‘Beyond 2030’ report published confirming Ossian grid connection in Lincolnshire. You can access the National Grid ESO’s document here.

2025

  • Submit application for the offshore transmission infrastructure.

Floating Structures

Example of Floating offshore wind floater structures

FAQs

  • Floating offshore wind is based on floating structures rather than structures fixed to the seabed. It opens the door to sites further offshore by allowing the deployment of wind turbines in larger and deeper offshore areas with higher wind potential.

  • We will update this website with project progress and highlight all of the development and consenting milestones along with the engagement planned.

  • Marine Scotland, following consultation, will issue a Scoping Opinion advising the project on the environmental topics to be included in Marine License and S36 EIA applications. Work will then commence on preparing the required applications. Marine license and planning consent applications, required to deliver the offshore and onshore transmission infrastructure, will be progressed in due course.

  • The most efficient way to contact us is to complete our Potential Supplier Registration Form which can be found here. You can also contact the project by email at contact@ossianwindfarm.com.