First Turbine Installed for 1.4 GW Offshore Wind Farm in the UK
ScottishPower and Masdar’s East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm has set a UK offshore wind record with the installation of its first turbine – the first in the UK to feature 115 metre blades, each one longer than a Premier League football pitch.
All 285 of the record-breaking blades for the project’s 95 turbines are being manufactured in the UK at Siemens Gamesa’s factory in Hull.
Standing around 262 metres tall – higher than the observation deck at the Shard – the 14 MW Siemens Gamesa turbines have a rotor diameter of 236 metres.
A single revolution of just one turbine will produce enough electricity to power a UK home for more than four days, charge around 1,700 mobile phones, or brew nearly a thousand cups of tea.
Located off the Suffolk coast in the UK, East Anglia THREE will be one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms when it comes into operation, delivering enough homegrown, clean electricity to power the equivalent of 1.3 million British homes.
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