HIP Atlantic pods to provide jobs and bolster electricity supplies

A £21bn offshore wind project in the North Atlantic looks set to create 15,000 jobs and provide renewable electricity to the UK when existing British wind farms are not operating. 

This is the claim of Hecate Independent Power Limited (HIP) which has launched the HIP Atlantic Project, an undertaking to install 10,000MW of fixed and floating wind turbines in the North Atlantic. These will be connected to the UK by long-length, high-capacity, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine power cables.

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According to HIP, the cables will be manufactured in the UK at a £200m power cable plant set to be built at a port in the northeast of England.

HIP is said to have lodged four connection applications with National Grid for an initial 4,000MW of grid connections to the UK’s 400kV electricity transmission system across four connection sites.  Each wind farm – or pod - will be in a different North Atlantic location, and each pod consisting of 1,000MW of wind turbines will have its own dedicated cable linked to Britain.  Full dispatch of the HIP offshore wind pods will be under the control of National Grid ESO, making HIP Atlantic Britain’s first captive wind farm in overseas territorial waters.