{"id":6181,"date":"2026-03-12T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2026\/03\/12\/exclusive-port-investment-critical-to-scotlands-offshore-wind-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:21:30","slug":"exclusive-port-investment-critical-to-scotlands-offshore-wind-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives-greenport\/exclusive-port-investment-critical-to-scotlands-offshore-wind-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Port investment critical to Scotland\u2019s offshore wind ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mjc-gate__lead-in\"><p>The UK\u2019s seventh Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round (AR7) secured 8.4GW of new offshore wind capacity in Europe\u2019s biggest ever offshore wind auction, restoring confidence after several challenging years for the sector,\u00a0writes\u00a0Andy Sloan, executive vice president, COWI UK &amp; International.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mjc-gate mjc-gate--full mjc-gate--anon\" data-mjc-gate=\"anon\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"mjc-gate__body\">\n\n        \n                            <h2 class=\"mjc-gate__heading\">Continue reading this article<\/h2>\n            \n                            <p class=\"mjc-gate__text\">Registration is currently closed. Sign in if you already have an account.<\/p>\n            \n        \n                    <p class=\"mjc-gate__actions\">\n                <a class=\"btn btn-primary mjc-gate__button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/login\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstrategy.com%2Fgreenport%2Fnews%2Fprojects-initiatives-greenport%2Fexclusive-port-investment-critical-to-scotlands-offshore-wind-ambitions%2F\">\n                    Sign in                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s seventh Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round (AR7) secured 8.4GW of new offshore wind capacity in Europe\u2019s biggest ever offshore wind auction, restoring confidence after several challenging years for the sector,\u00a0writes\u00a0Andy Sloan, executive vice president, COWI UK &amp; International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1376,8],"tags":[2518,345,2165,181,160],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-greenport-exclusive","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-cowi-uk-international","tag-offshore-wind","tag-port-investment","tag-renewable-energy","tag-scotland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}