Wind power capacity alone accounts for 194.4 GW capacity in the whole world, which is the highest among all renewable energy sources. And following along that green progression, Denmark’s Dong Energy and Scotland’s ScottishPower Renewables have stepped up their collaborative effort to install a mega capacity wind farm off the shore of Irish Sea. Named as the West of Duddon Sands wind farm, the project will encompass a whopping 108 3.6 wind turbines supplied by Siemens.The 389MW capacity grand project will incur a humongous cost of £1.6 billion ($2.56 billion) with construction to be started in 2013. Specially made installation vessels would aid in the ambitious building process, so as to accentuate upon the efficiency of construction during all seasons. But the actual productivity (power generation) of the farm will be around 374MW, taking into account the conventional transmission losses. ScottishPower Renewables chief executive Keith Anderson said:
West of Duddon Sands will be the first offshore wind project in our pipeline to be commissioned, and marks the start of our extensive investment programme in the offshore wind sector. We’ve been working with Dong on this project for many years now and we look forward to continuing this partnership throughout the construction and the operation of the wind farm.
On the other hand, as an interesting side note, this won’t actually be the first large scale wind farm in the Irish Sea. Danish Dong Energy already has its 367MW Walney 1 & 2 wind farms, with other expansive and new future projects being in the pipeline.
Via: reNews
