Plugging in Beatrice

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Global Marine Systems Limited has begun subsea cable installation work on the offshore Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project.

has begun subsea cable installation work on the offshore Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project (Beatrice Project).

The initial project will use two wind turbines 25km off the east coast of Scotland to test the viability of the Beatrice Oil Field as a future site for a commercial deep-water wind farm.

July’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Energy Review highlighted that up to a third of the UK’s oil and gas-generating capacity will reach the end of its life over the next twenty years. The Beatrice Project could help in addressing the DTI’s strategy to increase the proportion of electricity generated from renewables to 20%, which represents a five-fold increase from today’s level.

Commenting today, Ian Gaitch, Renewable Energy Manager at Global Marine said, ‘Beatrice is an important project involving industry, academia and government collaboration which we are pleased to be part of as Global Marine continues to diversify its core telecom cable installation experience into other sectors, such as renewable energy.’

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