Half of Scottish Power £1.6bn investment in new fleet of wind farms is ‘spent in Scotland’ – Scottish Energy News

Scottish Power has exceeded informal national and UK targets for ‘local
content’ for a fleet of eight onshore wind-turbines farms in south-west
Scotland.

The Offshore Wind Developers Forum – now the Offshore Wind Industry Council
– declared in 2012 a ‘vision’ that the UK content in offshore wind farms
would be 50%.

Although this is not a formal target, some wind farm owners see this as the
benchmark against which their wind farms will be judged.

The Spanish-owned utility has published the results of an independent
economic analysis which assessed the economic impact of these eight onshore
wind farms on the UK, Scottish and local economies.

The wind farms have a combined capacity of 474MW and were all commissioned
between 2016-17.

Total investment in these eight onshore wind farms was £1.6 billion, of
which expenditure on ‘UK content’ totalled 66% while ‘Scottish content’
amounted to 51% (including 16% ‘local content’).