The Brit-govt. has approved plans by Scottish Power to build a new 1.2
gigawatt offshore wind farm.

The East Anglia-3 development – to be built 46 miles off the coast – will
consist of up to 172 turbines and will meet the electricity needs of
890,000 homes per year.

The project is one of four that the company is developing off East Anglia,
and the second to receive planning approval. The nearby East Anglia-1 is
underway and pre-construction work is taking place.

The planning consent will allow for the installation of larger and more
efficient ‘next generation’ turbines, up to a tip height of 247 metres.
This is two-and-a-half times the size of Big Ben (96 metres). In total,
East Anglia-3 will require the following facilities:Up to four offshore
collector stations and up to two offshore converter station platforms;
Up to one offshore platform housing accommodation facilities;

Up to four offshore collector stations and up to two offshore converter
station platforms;

Up to one offshore platform housing accommodation facilities;

Subsea inter-array cables between the wind turbines and converter station
and collector station platforms;

Up to four subsea export cables to transmit electricity from the offshore
platforms to shore;

Up to four interconnector cables between the East Anglia-1 and East
Anglia-3 Projects;

Landfall at Bawdsey with onshore transition pits to join the offshore and
onshore cables;

Up to four onshore underground cables pulled through existing ducting to be
laid by East Anglia ONE, running for approximately 37 km from landfall to
the connection point at Bramford, Suffolk, with jointing pits, to transmit
electricity to a new onshore transformer substation;

An onshore transformer substation at Bramford, Suffolk, to connect the
offshore windfarm to the National Grid.

Keith Anderson, Scottish Power’s Chief Executive, said: “Offshore wind has
delivered on its promises from the outset. Our sector has met every
technical and political challenge, grown the UK’s supply chain, and
improved the technology at a rapid pace to allow projects to be deployed in
ever harsher conditions.

“At the same time, the level of cost reductions achieved would more
commonly be seen in consumer electronics.

“Our East Anglia-1 scheme is the best-value project to go in to
construction in the UK (£119 MW/h), and costs are expected to reduce even
further in future auctions.

“In a little over a decade, our sector has delivered substantial amounts of
green electricity for the UK, supported billions of pounds of UK investment
and created thousands of high quality jobs.

“Contracts are already being delivered in towns and cities across the UK.
Offshore wind has supported jobs and investment in Hull, Hartlepool,
Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Grimsby, Teesside, Tyneside, Fife, Machrihanish
and Belfast to name but a few.”

The UK now benefits from a strong development pipeline of more than 11GW of
consented capacity. This is in addition to the projects that are already
built or are on track to supply 10% of the UK’s electricity demand by 2020.
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1 Comment

Brian · August 8, 2017 at 10:44 am

“Our East Anglia-1 scheme is the best-value project to go in to
construction in the UK (£119 MW/h)”, says it all really doesn’t it? Nevertheless they still need an enquiry to establish why electricity bills are so high. Offshore wind (and onshore wind) should be made to compete with coal, CCGT and nuclear on a level playing field, scrap the renewables obligation which compels poor folks struggling with their power bills to subsidise this expensive scam.

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