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A floating offshore wind farm of the Angus coast set to be one of the world’s largest will take its name from Scottish literature.

The new wind farm will be named after a historic series of books depicting the quests of a 3rd century Scottish leader, following his adventures across rolling seas.

Ossian (pronounced “os-si-un”) from the Poems of Ossian will span across 858sq km of seabed.

SSE Renewables, Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation and Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) will deliver the project.

Crown Estate Scotland announced the partners as winners as one of the largest areas in the ScotWind leasing round earlier this year.

Ossian is set to become one of the world’s largest floating offshore wind farms.

It will deliver up to 2.6GW of power, enough to be capable of powering almost 4.3 million Scottish homes.

SSE Renewables, Marubeni and CIP target first generation of power by the end of the decade.

Ossian senior project manager David Willson said: “We believe that the name Ossian is fitting given the combination of scale, power, tradition and global reach it represents.

“As one of the largest wind farm developments in Scottish waters, Ossian represents a new Scottish tradition in power generation.

“It links far-off lands through our partnership of companies from around the world, bringing together local knowledge and global expertise.

“Ossian will provide a significant proportion of the renewable energy capacity we need to meet government ambition and help us reach net-zero.”

Pert-headquartered SSE Renewables has the country’s largest offshore wind portfolio and is building more offshore wind energy in the world right now than any other company.

It includes the 1.1GW Seagreen offshore wind farm, around 27km off the coast of Angus.

Seagreen will be Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest, fixed-bottom offshore wind farm when complete in 2023.

CIP is the world’s largest fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments.  Marubeni owns stakes in power projects across 21 countries.