" With its 175 turbines, the London Array OWF in UK will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world when completed. The monopile foundations are designed by COWI-IMS JV. The foundations support a 3.6 MW Siemens WTG, and the OWF will produce a total of 630 MW.
Contractor is ABJV and developer is London Array Ltd. "
1000MW=1GWの大規模洋上風力発電所建設計画となるロンドンアレイ London Array プロジェクト。第一フェーズは、2012年末までにシーメンスの3.6MW風力発電機を175基、合計630MWの建設を目指すということで、現在地上部分の変電所や保守管理設備などの地上部分の建設が急ピッチで進められています。
" Siemens Energy received the order to connect the London Array offshore wind farm to the power supply network. The order volume is EUR128 million. Purchasers are Dong Energy, E.ON and Masdar, the wind farm’s owners. Siemens Energy was already appointed to supply the 175 wind turbines for the wind farm as well. With a total capacity of 630 megawatts (MW) the London Array offshore wind farm will follow completion in 2012 and be the largest of its kind in the world.
The wind farm is being erected in the Thames estuary approximately twenty kilometers off the Kent and Essex coasts. An option is also provided for uprating London Array to as much as 1000 MW.
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" The visitor centre at Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow has recently closed its doors for the winter break and official figures released by ScottishPower Renewables have revealed that more than 120,000 people have come to see Europe’s largest windfarm in the 12 months that the centre has been opened – four times as many as the company had originally forecast. "
" Scotland's renewable electricity target for the next decade is being raised from 50 per cent to 80 per cent, First Minister Alex Salmond announced today.
The FM confirmed the Scottish Government's increased national target - now 80 per cent of Scottish electricity consumption to come from renewables by 2020 - ahead of a major international conference in Edinburgh next week to help accelerate investment in the growing low carbon economy.
Scotland's existing target was established in 2007 and, aided by a rapid expansion in wind power, the country is on course to exceed its interim target of 31 per cent in 2011.
The Scottish Government has now calculated that significantly higher levels of renewables could be deployed by 2020 with little change to the current policy, planning or regulation framework in Scotland. A separate study for industry body Scottish Renewables, published today, reports similar conclusions.
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-----image(”Dated: 20/07/10 The Wave Hub is lifted aboard the Nordica at Hartlepool prior to the installation of the power generation device off the Cornish coast.”Copyright:North News & Pictures Ltd) : 同リリースより
" Wave Hub, the South West RDA’s (Regional Development Agency) pioneering marine energy project, set sail for Cornwall overnight [17:00 Monday, July 26] in preparation for installation next week on the seabed 16 kilometres offshore.
Wave Hub is creating the world’s largest test site for wave energy technology by building a grid-connected socket on the seabed off the coast of Cornwall, to which wave power devices can be connected and their performance evaluated.
The £42 million project has been developed by the South West RDA and is a cornerstone of its strategy to develop a world class marine energy industry in South West England.
For the past week the 12-tonne hub and its 25 kilometre, 1,300 tonne subsea cable have been gradually loaded on to the cable laying ship Nordica at Hartlepool docks in North East England, where the hub and cable were manufactured.
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