UK gives go ahead to world's largest wind farm... again
Plans for an offshore wind farm twice the size of the world’s current largest have received approval from the UK government.
The energy secretary has granted Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm permission to construct a 1,200MW facility with up to 288 turbines off the Lincolnshire and Norfolk coasts, just a week after the opening of the record-breaking London Array.
RWE npower has scheduled 2017 as the construction start date for Triton Knoll, which, once complete, is expected to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, generating over £3.6bn of investment and creating around 1,130 jobs across the country.
If built as planned, it will dwarf the current record-holder, the 630MW London Array, even after a proposed second phase of development that will take the Thames Estuary farm to 870MW.
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has today also confirmed it will invest £400m in the 76-turbine Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm in South Wales, which is scheduled for construction in 2014.
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