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Alteration to £250m offshore windfarm plans submitted

Nicol Stephen.
Nicol Stephen.

Alterations to plans for a £250million floating windfarm off Stone- haven have been submitted to the Scottish Government.

A spokeswoman for Kincardine Offshore Wind Limited (KOWL) confirmed yesterday the company had filed a variation order detailing changes to the development.

Under the new proposals a confirmed total of seven turbines will be installed at the site nine miles offshore.– Previous plans proposed any number of turbines between six and eight. KOWL, set up by former deputy first minister Lord Nicol Stephen and now majority owned by Spanish company ACS, plans to instal a single two megawatt (MW) turbine at the site next year. That will be followed by the installation of the remaining six, each with a capacity of up to 8.4MW.

Under the earlier proposals turbines of between 6MW and 8MW were to have been used.

The machine to be deployed next year will have a tip height of just under 348ft and rotor diameter of 262ft. The others will have 626ft tip heights and 538ft rotor diameters. The first contracts for work on the development are expected to be issued next year. KOWL declined to comment further on the new plans.

It was hoped the windfarm would create up to 200 jobs at former North Sea fabrication yard in Wester Ross this year after KOWL and Kishorn Port signed an exclusivity deal for the manufacture of concrete bases for the turbines.