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Scottish firm SeaEnergy Renewables has signed a co-operation agreement with a state-owned Chinese company to develop and market steel structures for the offshore wind energy.

The deal with Nantong COSCO Ship Steel Structure Company (NCSC) will see the two companies work on turbine jacket substructures, towers and access systems.

SeaEnergy Renewables has experience in deep water offshore development for the oil and gas industry, making it ideally placed for the expanding offshore renewables sector.

“The combination of our proven skills in delivering offshore infrastructure and turbines in deeper water and NCSC’s expertise in design and manufacture of steel structures for marine applications provides the ideal platform to serve the growing global offshore wind industry as it moves into deeper waters,” says SeaEnergy Renewables’ CEO Joel Staadecker.

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has welcomed the agreement, commenting:

By harnessing just a third of the potential wind, wave and tidal resource off Scotland’s coast, by 2050 we could power Scotland seven times over – enabling us to become a massive exporter of clean, green energy, generating an estimated £14 billion in value and supporting around 60,000 jobs.”

For further information:
www.scotland.gov.uk/
www.seaenergy-plc.com/seaenergyrenewables/

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