12-05-2025
Ardersier secures work on Aspen wind farm off Aberdeenshire coast
A former oil and gas fabrication yard in the Highlands is to play a role in the construction and running of a floating wind farm off the Aberdeenshire near Inverness, is to serve as an assembly, delivery and operations centre for the 1GW Aspen project in the North completed, it would be one of three connected offshore wind farms with a total of more than 300 turbines about 52 miles (84km) east of Cerulean Winds said Aspen would support more than 1,000 UK jobs during its 50-year lifespan.
Floating wind farms involve turbines installed on platforms which are anchored to the is being developed along with two other offshore wind farms called Beech and firm Haventus is redeveloping the 450-acre (182ha) yard at Energy Minister Michael Shanks visited the site on the 1970s the McDermott Yard opened at Ardersier on the Moray Firth for the fabrication and construction of offshore platforms for the then newly-established North Sea gas and oil its height the yard employed about 4,500 people but it closed in 2001 as demand Port of Ardersier forms part of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green of Cromarty Firth, another green freeport site, has awarded a £1.5m contract to Glasgow-based civil engineering firm RJ McLeod as part of its £111m expansion McLeod will carry out all pre-construction work for improvements to a quay to allow the port at Invergordon to better serve North Sea wind farms.
