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World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Could Power 1 Million Homes in Scotland
The title of ‘world’s largest offshore wind farm‘ has been batted about many times in the past few years – from the 100-turbine Thanet Wind Farm in the North Sea to the 175-turbine London Array. However Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd is planning to top both by constructing three offshore wind farms located 22km (13.5 miles) from the Caithness coast that will contain a total of 339 turbines. The £4.5bn project has the potential to power up to one million households in Scotland.
The project has been divided into two distinctive parts – the offshore generating station and the transmission infrastructure. This system will send the electrical power from the outer Moray Firth to the mainland, where it can be used by residential and industrial customers.
The wind farm is expected to generate 1,500 MW (1.5 GW), with each site (Telford, Stevenson and MacColl) producing 500 MW each. In a statement, Moray Offshore Renewables said: “As a country, we require to dedicate some of our land and water resources to the construction of new electricity generation infrastructure, and there are many positive reasons why the proposed site in the Outer Moray Firth is a good use of this space for the development of offshore wind energy.”
“Moray Offshore Renewables will provide a lead to the world’s renewable energy sector, by moving this technology from a demonstrator project to a commercial-scale, capable of meeting a significant proportion of the nation’s energy need.”
Currently, Highland Council officers are recommending that the local authorities raise no objection to the plans. Meanwhile, the Scottish government will have the final say on the planning application.
6 Comments on "World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Could Power 1 Million Homes in Scotland"
DC on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 12:25 am
I wonder about something, why do renewable projects always get rated by how many ‘homes’ they can power, but coal, nuclear or gas plants are never referred to that way.
BillT on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 1:41 am
DC, they have to sell the cost to the customers, mostly you and I. It also gives the dumbed down public a reference they can understand. Sincw Scotland is broke, I wonder where the billions of pounds/dollars/euros are coming from?
Also, these ALL require large amounts of oil based energy to even exist. I wonder why they are called ‘renewable”. They won’t be when oil is gone. And it may be because oil is too expensive (EROEI)to recover, not that it will all have been burned.
Arthur on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 9:21 am
Go Scotland, go!
luap on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 12:29 pm
Finally some good news…not about time..yes I know it won’t solve the oil problem but this is the kind of initiative we should be doing
GregT on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 1:21 pm
Wind turbines have a useful lifespan of a few decades, while obviously a good ROI, there is nothing renewable about them. After the oil is gone, wind power will be gone soon after.
Arthur on Wed, 20th Mar 2013 7:20 pm
“After the oil is gone, wind power will be gone soon after.”
Greg, please tell me what you see:
http://professionalphotos.eu/wp-content/uploads/Old_Dutch_Windmill_example.jpg