EDF Energy Renewables (EDF ER), the UK subsidiary of EDF Énergies Nouvelles and EDF Energy, is acquiring 11 wind farm projects in development from asset management and development company, Partnerships for Renewables. The projects concerned, located in Scotland, have a potential capacity of 600 MW.
This acquisition underlines the EDF Group's ambition to double its capacity in renewable energies by 2030, as part of its CAP 2030 strategy.

Three projects, with a combined capacity of around 100 MW, already have a building permit. Another is about to enter the training phase and the remaining seven are in the development phase. The majority of these projects are located on land managed by Forest Enterprise Scotland.

This acquisition of wind projects once again demonstrates EDF's interest in Scotland and renewable energies, in the United Kingdom and around the world. EDF ER currently operates 319 MW of installed capacity in Scotland and has more than 1 GW of projects in development including the Lewis wind project, with a capacity of 340 MW and for which authorizations have been obtained.

Matthieu Hue, Managing Director of EDF Energy Renewables, said: “We are pleased to add Partnerships for Renewables projects to our portfolio. EDF Energy Renewables is pursuing a well-established strategy of growth of its activity which involves either the development of our own sites or the resumption of ambitious projects. This operation demonstrates our desire to strengthen our activity and increase our portfolio of wind projects under development.”

This acquisition follows the opening of EDF Energy Renewables' new offices in Edinburgh earlier this year. The United Kingdom is a strategic market for the EDF Group, which has around 700 MW of installed wind capacity there and is currently building a battery storage unit with a capacity of 49 MW.