TOP 10 OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

Location : 55 miles off the coast of Grimsby , UK MW Capacity ( when completed ): 1,800 The proposed construction of Hornsea Project Two has recently been approved by ministers . The offshore windfarm will cover an area five times the size of Hull and will see 300 turbines span more than 480 square kilometres in the North Sea .

The project is being developed by DONG Energy and is expected to deliver 1,800MW of low-CO2 electricity to 1.6m UK homes . It will have a generating capacity of 1.8 gigawatts and will dwarf the London Array which is currently the world ’ s largest operating offshore wind farm . Ministers have said the windfarm would introduce 1,960 construction jobs and 580 operational and maintenance jobs . The project could be up and running by the mid-2020s , however , the company has yet to make a final investment decision on Hornsea Project Two and a spokesman said it could be two years before it is signed off .

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