In 2024, we completed the decommissioning of our onshore wind farm Owenreagh 1 in Northern Ireland, which had been in operation since 1997 and consisted of 10 wind turbines with a total capacity of 5 MW. We did so in collaboration with Plaswire, with whom we entered into a partnership in 2023. Plaswire enables the recycling of wind blades, as they specialise in the shredding, granulating, and re-moulding required to turn the blade material into, for example, durable polymer. Durable polymer is typically used in the construction industry, and as a result, some of the retired blades may end up being used to produce road marking poles for some of our new onshore wind farms in Ireland, replacing the use of virgin plastics in our own projects. Similarly, we work with the US solar recycling company SOLARCYCLE on the treatment of defective and retired solar panels. With the installation of various solar assets in the US in 2024, we have, where necessary, sent damaged panels to SOLARCYCLE for recycling, demonstrating our ambition to recycle retired solar panels. Our collaborations with Plaswire and SOLARCYCLE are examples of how we engage with partners on our material resource-related impacts. Over the past few years, we have successfully carried out several small-scale recycling pilots in the US and the UK and will continue to leverage retired blades and panels from our assets to help accelerate the maturation of promising, innovative, recycling technologies and solutions in our markets going forward.

In alignment with our resource management policy objective, we continuously work to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources for our assets. As we have a large portfolio of offshore wind farms in operation, our ability to increase the reuse and refurbishment of spare parts during the lifetime of the assets can both lower our use of virgin materials, extend the lifetime of the assets, and reduce our operational costs.