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U.K. Offshore Wind Expansion "Biggest Ambition In The World"

By CostBenefit on Feb 8, 2010 | In Energy, Climate Change GHG Carbon CO2, Government Report, U.K., Economic Development and Green Jobs, Costs and Benefits | Send feedback »

Link: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn10_004/pn10_004.aspx

... The Crown Estate, owner of the UK’s coastal seabeds, granted rights to energy companies to develop the biggest expansion of wind energy ever seen in the world.

The announcement has the potential to see an additional 32GW of clean electricity feeding into the UK grid, on top of 8GW from previous rounds. 32GW is enough offshore wind energy to supply nearly all the homes in the UK and will mean an extra 6,400 turbines. Investment in UK offshore wind overall could be worth £75 billion and support up to 70,000 jobs by 2020.

The next generation of offshore wind farms that will be developed under the licenses announced in January 2010 will require larger and more efficient turbines, capable of generating 5MW of power.

It was hailed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband, who met The Crown Estate

The developers who have signed exclusivity zone agreements with The Crown Estate are:
* Moray Firth Zone, Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd which is 75% owned by EDP Renovaveis and 25% owned by SeaEnergy Renewables – 1.3 GW
* Firth of Forth Zone, SeaGreen Wind Energy Ltd equally owned by SSE Renewables and Fluor – 3.5 GW
* Dogger Bank Zone, the Forewind Consortium equally owned by each of SSE Renewables, RWE Npower Renewables, Statoil and Statkraft – 9 GW
* Hornsea Zone, Siemens Project Ventures and Mainstream Renewable Power, a consortium equally owned by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures and involving Hochtief Construction – 4 GW
* Norfolk Bank Zone, East Anglia Offshore Wind Ltd equally owned by
* Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall Vindkraft – 7.2 GW
* Hastings Zone, Eon Climate and Renewables UK– 0.6 GW
* West of Isle of Wight Zone, Eneco New Energy – 0.9 GW
* Bristol Channel Zone, RWE Npower Renewables, the UK subsidiary of RWE Innogy – 1.5 GW
* Irish Sea Zone, Centrica Renewable Energy and involving RES Group – 4.2 GW

For more information on the Round 3 announcement see The Crown Estate website (http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/round3[external Link])

1GW of offshore wind would power around 680,000 homes. This is based on an average household consumption of 4,500KWh and an average load factor of 35%.

Carbon Trust figures on jobs and investment are taken from CT’s July 2009 report “Focus for success: a new approach to commercializing low carbon technologies”, p.53
www.carbontrust.co.uk/Publications/pages/publicationdetail.aspx?id=CTC752[external Link]

TAG is pursuing the development of a world class, state of the art, automated tubular production facility for the rolling and welding of large diameter tubulars and the construction of foundations, (monopiles, tripods, jackets and transition pieces) at their Haverton Hill Facility in Teesside.

The existing TAG facilities offer developers an integrated manufacturing, marshalling, assembly and load out capability perfectly situated on the River Tees on the east coast of the UK, being very well placed for the largest planned offshore developments for the UK. The ... development will bring much needed jobs to the region: 50 permanent direct jobs at TAG within the new facility and this could increase to 100 depending on shift patterns / workload.

U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change http://www.decc.gov.uk
Press Notice dated January 8, 2010