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The 114th and final wind turbine has been installed at Seagreen Wind Farm, Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm.

This month has seen Skanska UK put in place the only current female chief executive at a Tier 1 contractor in the UK, while other contractors including Buro Happold, Sisk and Morgan Sindall have also made senior appointments.

What is set to be Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm has also become the location of the world’s deepest wind turbine foundation too.

Equinor and SSE Renewables are carrying out early scoping work to explore options for developing Dogger Bank D, the fourth phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

Several of the industry’s biggest companies including Mace, Bam Nuttall and Kier have made high-level appointments as they look to make 2023 a more productive and sustainable year than ever.

Strabag UK has started exploratory works at Loch Lochy in the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands for what could become the UK’s first large-scale pumped storage scheme in 30 years.

October saw plenty of new appointments at some of the industry’s biggest consultancy firms, while Transport for London and Balfour Beatty have undertaken shake ups at senior level.

SSE Renewables has opened a public consultation for its proposed €2.5bn (£2.13bn) windfarm in the Irish Sea.

The first offshore works have begun on Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is set to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

This week the “iconic” Tummel Bridge Power Station near Pitlochry in Scotland will be switched off for the first time since it came into operation in 1933 as an 18-month programme of upgrade works begins.