Largest wind farm project set to cool off quarter of London’s power problems |
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Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:05
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The biggest wind farm in the world sufficing the electricity needs of at least a quarter of London’s homes, could be just round the corner. A planning application was submitted by Shell WindEnergy, in association with E.ON and an Anglo-Danish company, Core, yesterday for the £1.5 billion wind farm London Array project.
This wind farm would put in place about 270 turbines offshore where Thames joins the North Sea, around 60 miles from London.
The project is capable of generating a massive 1,000 megawatts of electricity that can supply power to at least 750,000 homes and help minister Blair keep up his promise of creating a tenth of the country’s power through renewable sources till the year 2010.
| If the wind farm project receives the nod from local and national politicians, it is expected that the first turbines would start functioning by 2008 and the entire plan would consummate by 2011. Furthermore, the plant will prevent about 1.9 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in a year.
According to Core director, Erik Kjaer Sorensen, “This project will supply the equivalent of a quarter of London's domestic load and will surely, once and for all, bury the myth that wind energy is insignificant. It is merely the first of a number of similar sized wind power schemes that will place the UK market at the forefront of offshore renewable energy development worldwide.”
Amongst its current commercial offshore wind farms, Britain has North Hoyle situated off the coast of Rhyl in north Wales, and the Scroby Sands wind farm located close to Great Yarmouth.
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