The Crown Estate Scotland has received “significant” interest in projects that could help to decarbonise the North Sea oil and gas sector. Since August companies have been able to bid for new offshore wind seabed lease under a scheme called Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas, which aims to show how oil platforms could be electrified using wind energy. Alongside that it is looking at bids from innovative small-scale developments generating up to 100 megawatts of power.
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