UK to be core of offshore wind business
Glasgow has been identified as the preferred location for the facility, subject to final agreements on financing. This could see the creation of 130 jobs in Scotland’s largest city.
The company also is developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Forth Ports plc to advance a further potential development in Dundee around manufacturing, logistics and operations and maintenance (O&M) activities in the Scottish port, which remains conditional upon the development of offshore wind power projects in the area and the availability of sites for prototype offshore wind turbine generators.
The announcement comes just a few months after Gamesa unveiled its industrial plan for offshore wind power in the United Kingdom, where it plans to invest over 150 million euro through 2014.
In addition to its offshore technology centre in Glasgow and a potential industrial, logistics and O&M base in Dundee, Gamesa’s offshore wind strategy for the UK includes construction of a blade production plant (location, under study) and engaging in offshore logistics from a number of UK ports, around which it will locate its wind turbine O&M operations.
Gamesa's offshore wind business headquarters will be based in London, from where it will engage in sales, project development, finance and management activities.
