The Anonymous Widower

Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Is Now Operational

The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Seagreen Wind Energy.

These three bullet points, act as sub-headings.

• First Minister Humza Yousaf says Seagreen milestone takes Scotland a step closer to net zero

• UK’s newest offshore wind farm is generating enough renewable energy to power almost 1.6m homes annually

• Seagreen is now Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind farm

These two paragraphs outline the current state of the project.

SSE Renewables, part of SSE plc, and its partner TotalEnergies have announced all 114 Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines at the 1.1GW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational and are generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid.

Situated 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth, Seagreen is now Scotland’s largest wind farm as well as the world’s deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind farm, with its deepest foundation installed at a record 58.7 metres below sea level^. Seagreen is operated from a dedicated onshore Operations and Maintenance Base at Montrose Port.

Note.

1. The capacity of the wind farm is 1,075MW.
2. First power was in August 2022.
3. It looks like that the original completion date was in 2024, but it was moved forward to October 2023, which has been met.

It seems that the project management was planned well.

October 17, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Offshore Wind Power, Project Management, Seagreen Wind Farm, SSE Renewables, Wind Power