FAQ's

Not directly. The Moray FLOW Park is a separate proposal by Offshore Solutions Group. Ardersier is focused on fabrication and assembly of offshore wind components and have their own storage facilities. Cromarty Firth Port Authority states they can accommod...

OSG claims Scotland will need more “logistics capacity” to support floating offshore wind. However, no national or regional strategy document identifies a near-shore wet-storage site of this scale as essential. Scotland’s offshore wind farms already use de...

There is no evidence that wet-storage sites create many local jobs. Most work is short-term (surveying, occasional vessel operations) and often carried out by specialist teams brought in from elsewhere.Past projects in Scotland show that promised job numbe...

The projected economic value includes national and international supply-chain effects, not guaranteed local benefits. Experience from similar offshore wind infrastructure shows that the majority of spend flows to developers, contractors, and ports, not to ...

No. OSG only has exclusivity to explore the site. This is not approval. The project still needs: a full Environmental Impact Assessment, a marine licence, planning permissions, public consultation, scrutiny by Marine Scotland and NatureScot. If evidence sh...

The Scottish Government and SNP policy commit to a just transition, meaning the shift to net zero must be fair and must not leave communities behind. However, they are also pushing offshore wind forward and there is a real risk that this project may sneak ...

The planning and marine licensing process is designed to be evidence-based and transparent, but it can be conducted in a way that plays to the developer's strengths and quite often can be biased towards "generic" economic benefits which may ...