The Anonymous Widower

ScottishPower Renewables Picks Port For East Anglia Two Pre-Assembly

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola’s UK arm, has selected Peel Ports Great Yarmouth as the staging ground for pre-assembly works for its 960 MW East Anglia Two offshore wind project.

This is the introductory paragraph.

The companies have signed a reservation agreement that will see the Siemens Gamesa turbine components and sections come together for assembly at the Norfolk site before installation in the southern North Sea in 2028.

Note.

  1. The Port of Great Yarmouth was used for this task with East Anglia One.
  2. The turbine blades will be manufactured at Siemens Gamesa’s offshore wind blade factory in Hull.
  3. The monopiles will come from Sif in Rotterdam.

This is the first sentence of the Wikipedia entry for the East5 Anglia Array.

The East Anglia Array is a proposed series of offshore wind farms located around 30 miles off the east coast of East Anglia, in the North Sea, England. It has begun with the currently operational East Anglia ONE, that has been developed in partnership by ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall. Up to six individual projects could be set up in the area with a maximum capacity of up to 7.2 GW.

These articles on offshoreWIND.biz indicate that ScottishPower Renewables has been busy signing contracts for East Anglia Two.

They must have employed lawyers on roller skates to get five contracts signed in just over a month.

Conclusion

East Anglia Two appears to be definitely under way and the Wikipedia extract says there could be a lot more, if all the other wind farms are developed in the same way using the Port of Great Yarmouth.

A total capacity in the East Anglia Array of 7.2 GW will surely be good for both East Anglia and the UK as a whole, but will the natives be happy with all the onshore infrastructure?

I wouldn’t be surprised to see further wind farm developed to generate hydrogen offshore, which will be either brought ashore to the Bacton gas terminal, using existing or new pipelines or distributed using tanker ships to where it is needed.

 

 

December 9, 2024 Posted by | Energy, Hydrogen | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Odd Sugary Snack May Be Good For You (But Lay Off Sugary Drinks)

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in The Tunes.

 

I shall be discussing this research with my cardiologist. My relationship with him is as doctor/patient, researcher/lab-rat and just friends. I am also coeliac and very much feel that I need to take the odd sugary snack to keep my energy levels up. I also had a serious stroke at 64, thirteen years ago, due to atrial fibrillation.

Sweden and coeliac disease could be another complicating factor here, as Sweden went the wrong way to try to eliminate coeliac disease after WW2 and just created a lot more.

I found about this Swedish research in a peer-reviewed paper entitled Coeliac Disease: Can We Avert The Impending Epidemic In India? in the Indian Journal of Research Medicine.

A History Of Sugary Snacks And Drinks And Me

Growing up in London, after World War 2, I didn’t get much sugar, as it was rationed.

But I did put it in tea and coffee.

I never ate many cakes, except for some chocolate ones.

My habit of not eating cakes and proper puddings really annoyed my mother-in-law.

I was a sickly child and I didn’t really get better until I was found to be coeliac at 50.

I am fairly certain, that my consumption of sugary snacks has got more, as I’ve got older.

But because American drinks, sweets and snacks could use sugar made from wheat, I don’t touch any American sweetened products.

But I haven’t put on any weight, since I was fifty.

Thanks to the likes of Leon, Marks and Spencer and the cafe at Worksop station for excellent sugary gluten-free snacks to keep me going!

December 9, 2024 Posted by | Health | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment