Thistle Wind Partners

TWP is pleased to have submitted, with the support of RPS and Pinsent Masons, the Ayre Offshore Wind Farm Offshore Scoping Report to the Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate - Licensing & Operations Team. The full report can be found here: https://lnkd.in/edgN6eFC   2024 has already been a busy year for the project with the 24 month campaign of offshore aerial bird and marine mammal surveys completing in February and the completion of the benthic survey in April.    The TWP team will be attending events in #Caithness over the summer, including stalls at the Caithness Show (20 July) and the Halkirk Games (27 July), and we will return to Orkney to participate in the #OrkneyInternationalScienceFestival (September 5 – 11 September) for the second year running. #scotwind

Groupe Qair strengthens European Synergies for the Offshore Wind Sector  Qair is pleased to have welcomed a Scottish delegation consisting of members from the Thistle Wind Partners team (led by Qair, DEME Group, and Aspiravi, and winner of 2GW of offshore lease options in Scotland’s #ScotWind leasing round) and the DeepWind cluster (represented by Paul O'Brien) to Port-La Nouvelle.     Gathered for a comprehensive program centered around our projects, we were able to showcase tangible examples of successful collaboration and innovation:  🏗️ Visiting the construction site of our Eolmed floating wind farm project   ⚓ Presenting the Port of Port-La Nouvelle, its governance, and development with SEMOP and Euroports   🤝 Discussing partnerships, community involvement, and activating the local supply chain, with Wind'Occ and Scottish Development International   🗨️ Hosting technical and development (stakeholders, environment, ...) workshops  🏭 Visiting local industrial actors with ITS Fusion and SLB These exchanges are a true opportunity to share experiences and best practices while strengthening our international ties, with Eolmed serving as a flagship project for our further offshore wind developments in Scotland and beyond 🌍 #Eolmed #Qair #TWP #EnergyTransition #OffshoreWind #RenewableMarineEnergies  

In or near Stonehaven today? Thistle Wind Partners are at the Feein Market ready to chat all things offshore wind and share information about our upcoming Bowdun Offshore Wind Farm!

TWP are happy to announce that we have appointed Cairn Risk as Principal Designer for the #Ayre and #Bowdun projects to help to reduce the project HSE risk profiles, throughout the lifecycle of the projects!

Day 2 of #allenergy and Ian Taylor Project Director of Thistle Wind Partners is presenting on ‘How can we accelerate utility-scale floating offshore wind development? Let’s look to Formula 1 Rules’ at the Marine Renewable Energy and Floating Offshore Wind Theater. Challenging the norm. #floatingwind #offshorewind #innovation #supplychain

A few of the TWP team are attending #AllEnergy today and tomorrow to catch up with industry colleagues, Calum Duff, Ian Taylor, Pierre P., Gavin MacKay, Lee Goulding. I'm attending tomorrow and joining the 11am panel, Update on Detailed Network Design for 2030: Offshore Wind Targets and Network Plan to Facilitate the 2035 Carbon Free Power System. Looking forward to catching colleagues from across industry.

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), developer of the Ayre and Bowdun Offshore Wind Farms, is pleased to have collaborated with 11 other projects in the East and Northeast ScotWind regions, through the North East and East Developers Group (NEEOG), to commission a study examining potential regional ornithological compensation measures that could be deployed at scale and contribute to the increased resilience of seabird populations in Scotland. This important study was carried out by Royal Haskoning DHV, Hi-Def Consulting, with input from Nima Consultants. The study highlights the challenge the industry is facing in delivering offshore wind at scale under the current regulations. The developers are pleased the Scottish Government has launched its Joint Environmental Accelerator Project (JEAP) initiative and are keen to continue the proactive, collaborative work to ensure these projects deliver real environmental benefit as well as delivering net zero. The developers involved believe significant focus on this issue is essential to delivering Scotland’s 2045 net zero targets and realising the wider benefits of ScotWind. Continued collaboration between all stakeholder groups to develop a practicable and appropriate approach to compensation measures is vital to meet net zero and energy security needs, and to unlock the significant socio-economic benefits to Scotland and the wider UK which the ScotWind projects could enable. Projects involved: Ayre, Bowdun, Ossian, Bellrock, Morven, CampionWind, MarramWind, Muir Mhòr, Stromar, Caledonia, Broadshore, and Buchan. #ScotWind

TWP is a sponsor of this year's Holyrood Garden Party & Political Awards taking place this September in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens. Our One to Watch category celebrates new Scottish parliamentarians who have made a big splash in their speeches or committee work. Project Director Ian Taylor will present the award on behalf of TWP as a 'one to watch' #Scotwind developer bringing 2GW of #offshorewind to the stage!

We have our fingers crossed for TWP Stakeholder Engagement Manager Kirsty MacAulay at tonight's awards for new talent in the industry! Scottish Renewables

Our latest article in Holyrood Communications explores how we are feeling as we enter year three of our #ScotWind projects' development. The successful onshore Scoping submission for our Ayre project also gets an honourable mention as a key milestone in this edition's editorial. Scottish Renewables RenewableUK https://lnkd.in/eSpJJXrz