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On 14 June 2019, Scottish Ministers granted offshore consents for the Moray West development, including a dedicated Marine Licence for the Offshore Transmission Infrastructure (OfTI) covering two offshore substation platforms and two offshore export cable circuits from the Moray West site to landfall at Broad Craig near Sandend Bay. These consents, issued under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 and the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 / Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, authorised construction and operation of the offshore wind farm and its transmission system linking to the onshore substations at Whitehillock and Blackhillock.