Overview
- Aberdeenshire Council’s Infrastructure Services Committee approved onshore plans Thursday for Ocean Winds’ 2 GW Caledonia project and the ~1 GW Buchan floating scheme, clearing their landfall and cable corridors.
- For Caledonia, consent covers about 3 km of underground cable linking the consented Burnside substation to SSEN Transmission’s planned Greens substation.
- Ocean Winds says the Caledonia route follows environmental assessments and will be buried to avoid permanent visual impact, with offshore consent now awaiting a Scottish Government decision and onshore works planned for 2028.
- For Buchan, permission in principle allows a landfall at Rattray Head and an underground cable of roughly 20 km to a new substation near Peterhead, serving a site about 75 km northeast of Fraserburgh with up to 70 floating turbines.
- The Buchan consortium submitted its offshore consent application in August 2025 with a decision expected later in 2026, and it is targeting an early‑2030s grid connection while promoting Scottish manufacturing and long‑term jobs.