714MW offshore wind farm in UK starts generating first power
Iberdrola has connected the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm to the British electricity grid. With an installed capacity of 714 MW, it will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world, after coming into operation in 2020.
The first of East Anglia ONE's 102 wind turbines is already supplying electricity to the farm's land substation located in the town of Burstall. Iberdrola group — through it subsidiary in the United Kingdom ScottishPower Renewables — has installed 25 turbines throughout the summer and will gradually connect them to the grid.
East Anglia ONE will be supplying clean energy to nearly 630,000 British households. Located in the North Sea — about 50 kilometres from the coast of the English county of Suffolk — it has an investment of GBP2.5 billion (US$3.1 billion) and is owned 60% by the Iberdrola group and 40% by the Green Investment Group (GIG) of the Macquarie group. East Anglia ONE will feature 102 wind turbines each producing 7 MW supplied by Siemens Gamesa.
But this new offshore farm is part of an even more ambitious project: Iberdrola, through its subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables, has asked the British Government for permission to extend these facilities and has submitted a proposal to the United Kingdom Authorities to build two farms: East Anglia TWO (257 km2 / 800 MW capacity) and THREE (305 km2 / 1,200 MW capacity).
The company has received approval from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in the United Kingdom (BEIS) to start up East Anglia THREEExternal link, opens in new window., which will be located 69 kilometres off the coast of Norfolk — near the metropolitan area of London — and will supply electricity to approximately one million homes. The aim is to start on the construction work in 2022, and start production in 2025.
With this, the future East Anglian complex will reach a total power capacity of 2,000 MW, thereby becoming one of the largest renewable energy installations in the world.
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