ABPmer assessing site conditions at two planned UK North Sea wind farms

Offshore staff

SOUTHAMPTON, UK — The consenting process has started for the 2-GW Ayre and Bowdun wind farms in the central UK North Sea, both owned by Thistle Wind Partners.

Ayre is a proposed floating wind farm off the coast of Orkney, northern Scotland, while Bowdun will be a fixed foundation wind farm offshore Aberdeen. 

ABPmer, a subsidiary of Associated British Ports, will provide marine physical process assessments to support the consenting process for the marine consultancy and survey company RPS.

It will model the wave, hydrodynamic and sediment transport environment of the offshore areas to help determine how this could impact the planned wind farms.

The team will also assess how the wind farm designs could influence coastal processes, sediment transport pathways, and morphological features on the seabed and at the coast.

Consenting for both wind farms should be completed in 2025, with construction set to start in 2029.

06.10.2024