The Rallying Cry For Offshore Wind

The UK is at the forefront of the global offshore wind market, but just how big a share of electricity demand could it satisfy?

A combination of innovation, vision and dogged determination, particularly in the past decade, has driven what can only be described as seismic growth in renewable energy projects across the UK, notably in offshore wind.

Over the course of three decades advising the UK energy sector, Shepherd and Wedderburn has seen (and helped implement) many changes – but who could have guessed that, come 2018, our small island would be sitting at the forefront of the global offshore wind market?

In 2008, Shepherd and Wedderburn embarked on what was, at the time, its biggest foray into the offshore renewables market, acting for a new joint venture – energy giant Siemens and independent developer Mainstream – bidding into the Crown Estate's third, and biggest, offshore wind leasing round, securing a zone off the Yorkshire coast. Since then we have