Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 5 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to count any components fabricated outside the UK and shipped to the UK for assembly towards the £16 billion to fund manufacturing and fabrication of turbines and offshore infrastructure in Scotland, as pledged by the energy companies who won offshore contracts through the ScotWind auction in 2022.
The Supply Chain Development Statements (SCDS) process has been carefully designed and is managed by Crown Estate Scotland. It requires developers to outline their initial commitments to the Scottish supply chain across four project phases - development, manufacturing and fabrication, installation and operations & maintenance.
We welcome developers’ commitments to invest an average projection of £1.5bn per project on the 20 ScotWind projects.