Green light for £350m Sumitomo project to meet rising offshore wind demand

A funding package has been agreed to secure an estimated £350 million in inward investment for a major energy industry expansion in the Highlands.

Sumitomo Electric UK Power Cables Ltd (SEUK), a subsidiary of Japanese company Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) is planning to establish major operations in the region, supplying high voltage cables to the growing offshore wind energy sector.

The Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Scottish Enterprise (SE) have approved up to £24.5m in public sector support to secure the project. This comprises £19.37m in Scottish Government funding, £4.6m from HIE and £0.53m from SE.

The project includes plant and equipment investment, construction of a new purpose-built factory, and long-term land leasing and associated costs.
It will stimulate significant economic activity across industry supply chains at regional, Scotland and UK levels.

This includes creating around 330 jobs in Scotland over the next ten years, 265 of which will be in the Highlands and Islands including 156 well paid manufacturing jobs on site.

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North Star Renewables to design and deliver service vessel fleet for Dogger Bank Wind Farm

Aberdeen company North Star Renewables has been awarded contracts worth an estimated £270 m to deliver three state-of-the-art service operation vessels (SOVs) to be used on what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea.

North Star’s contract award follows a highly-competitive tender process. The Scottish firm beat off strong international competition to secure the deal to design and deliver the three-vessel service operation fleet for Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is currently being built in the North Sea by joint venture partners SSE Renewables, Equinor and Eni.

North Star will deliver the SOVs to Dogger Bank Wind Farm operator Equinor from Summer 2023 and will be chartered to Dogger Bank by North Star for a ten-year period, with an option for three one-year extensions.

They will also create 130 new full-time UK-based jobs in crewing and shore-based roles for the lifetime of the contract.

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