Who We Are
The Scottish Offshore Wind Ports Alliance (SOWPA) is a progressive and collaborative forum of the country’s leading port locations and enabling infrastructure facilities, targeted at optimising the opportunities from offshore wind.
SOWPA is represented by leading offshore energy ports across Scotland, which hold expertise across the full offshore wind value chain, from Manufacturing and Fabrication, through to Marshalling, Assembly, and Operations & Maintenance.
Our Role
The alliance is actively developing opportunities to enhance regional competitiveness, drive efficiencies and fast-track the required expertise to support the UK’s burgeoning offshore wind industry.
This will be achieved by optimising large-scale operations and addressing common & complex industry challenges through knowledge sharing and collaboration. Collectively, this will improve regional competitiveness and enhance the value proposition in support of ScotWind, INTOG and all future offshore wind leasing rounds in the UK.
The Opportunity - Offshore Wind in Scotland
Offshore wind is set to play a critical role in Scotland’s targets to reach net zero emissions by 2045.
The existing 10GW of installed offshore wind capacity is set to triple through the ScotWind leasing round, adding a further 30GW to this total over the next 10 years. ScotWind includes 19.2GW of commercial floating wind sites, establishing Scotland as the leading market globally for floating wind development.
This is supplemented with an additional 13 floating wind projects from the INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas) leasing round, amounting to 5.4GW in total.
Recognising ports critical enabling role in the industrialisation and deployment of offshore wind and in supporting wider supply chain development, SOWPA provides a clear signal to industry on their members willingness to work together with the collective ambition to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind and support the national energy transition.
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