European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre

The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre is being developed by Aberdeen Offshore Wind Ltd, comprising current partners Vattenfall Wind Power UK, Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) and the Scottish European Green Energy Centre (SEGEC).

This innovative project, off the coast of Aberdeen, has been earmarked for possible support of up to forty million Euros from the European Commission.

The Deployment Centre will allow offshore wind farm developers and associated supply chain companies to test new designs, prove existing products and receive independent validation and accreditation before commercial deployment.

This will reduce development risks and capital costs and provide an opportunity to test reliability and capacity in a real time, offshore environment. The project will provide electricity to the national grid and will disseminate lessons learned to the EU industry at large.

At the heart of the project is an interaction between research, testing and training facilities alongside a commercially operated, highly instrumented offshore wind farm.