17 October 2023: SSE Renewables, part of SSE plc, and its partner TotalEnergies have announced all 114 Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines at the 1.1GW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational and are generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid. Situated 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth, Seagreen Read more...

Montrose Port Authority (MPA) welcomed Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, on a visit to its site this week to receive an update on how the Port is continuing to build on its reputation as the major support, logistics and service hub for the North Sea energy sector. Described as a “case study of a business in Read more...

Montrose Port Authority welcomed local MSP for Angus North and Mearns, Mairi Gougeon, on a visit to its site last week where she received an update on how the Port is continuing to build on its reputation as the major support, logistics and service hub for the North Sea energy sector and general cargo markets, as well as a leading Read more...

Norwegian offshore wind service company, Edda Wind, has named its latest service operation vessel (SOV) the Edda Brint at a naming ceremony at Astilleros Balenciaga shipyard in Spain.  Launched in 2021 and to be delivered in August, Edda Brint is a 82.85 metre-long vessel being purpose built for Vestas, the wind turbine maintenance contractor, for the Seagreen offshore wind farm Read more...

As work continues at pace on the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Base at Montrose Port for the Seagreen offshore wind farm, local businesses are starting to feel the benefit of the project. One such contractor is Harry Maiden Ltd, steel fabricators based in the town and which was tasked with installing the metal framework of the new O&M building – Read more...