ERM Group will work with NIRAS and Brown & Marine Marine on the Salamander EIA (source: ERM)
Salamander, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea7, has selected MarineSpace, part of ERM Group, to lead an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for their floating wind project off northeast Scotland
As part of the work, engineering consultant NIRAS has been contracted by Salamander to lead the Habitats Regulations Appraisal and Brown & May Marine Ltd will provide commercial fisheries support.
The Salamander offshore wind project is located 35 km off Peterhead. It is designed to provide the Scottish supply chain with an early capacity development opportunity, enabling it to play a much greater role in subsequent large-scale floating offshore wind buildout.
Salamander recently awarded a pre-FEED foundation design to Ocergy for its OCG-Wind foundation technology.
Salamander is intended to be progressed through the innovation track of Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round.
The INTOG round will grant seabed leases through an auction process, which will be split into two pots – one for smaller-scale innovation projects of less than 100 MW and one for larger projects linked to oil and gas infrastructure.
