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The Crown Estate is set to start awarding seabed leases for firms looking to develop floating offshore windfarms in the Celtic Sea, the area between south Wales, Ireland and Cornwall.

These new results also have important implications for the proposed mass development of floating wind farms, in places like the Celtic Sea and northern North Sea, in pursuance of NetZero:

"Two offshore projects in the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea on their own will produce more than double what Wales needs by 2050," Mr Evans said.

The Crown Estate - which belongs to the monarch but is run independently - said data gathered would speed up the process of developing floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea.

The Celtic Sea is the area of the Atlantic ocean between southern Ireland, south Wales, Cornwall and western Brittany.