The Salamander Offshore Wind Farm joint venture (JV) between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 opened Phase 2 of its call for supplier innovations today, Dec. 3.

The project, comprising a 100-MW floating offshore wind development and 100-MW onshore battery storage facility, is located about 35 km offshore Peterhead, northeast Scotland.

This second call opened Dec. 3, 2024, and can be accessed until the Jan. 14, 2025, through the Salamander website.

Currently the JV is focused on five areas of interest in terms of innovation:

• Construction and operational health and safety;
• Wind turbine foundation integration;
• Novel anchor technology;
• Low-carbon materials and processe; and
• Construction vessel optimization.

The partners will look to select multiple suppliers for further evaluation of their solutions.

Salamander has been designed in part to enable the Scottish supply chain to make preparations for supporting larger commercial-scale projects through testing novel floating-related technologies on a smaller scale.

Tom Brown, innovation manager, said, “From a technical perspective, we have already undertaken our concept and pre-FEED engineering stages, so we’re in a better position now to identify solutions that will address project challenges.”

In May 2023, the project obtained a 100-MW innovation seabed lease under Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG leasing round. The partners hope to start construction in 2027 with operations getting underway in 2029.