Balfour Beatty awarded to build onshore substation for the 1,386 MW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind project
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to build the onshore substation for Ørsted’s latest offshore wind farm, Hornsea Project Two on the east coast of England.
When operational in 2022, the wind farm will supply clean electricity to over 1.3 million homes. The new onshore substation facility will transform the power produced by Hornsea Project Two wind farm before connecting to the National Grid. Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick will deliver the mechanical and electrical services for the new state-of-the-art facility.
Hornsea Project Two won a Contract for Difference in September 2017, and will be built at the lowest ever price for offshore wind seen in the UK. The 1.4 gigawatt (GW) project will be located 89 kilometres off the Yorkshire Coast, and last month Ørsted confirmed it will use 165 Siemens Gamesa turbines for the project.
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