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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.

• December 4th, 2024 – Nexans Lands Export Cable Contract For East Anglia Two Offshore Wind Farm.
• November 28th, 2024 – Hitachi Energy to Integrate 960 MW East Anglia Two Wind Farm into UK Grid.
• November 12th, 2024 – Siemens Gamesa Bags GBP 1 Billion Turbine Contract For East Anglia Two.
• November 6th, 2024 – Seaway7 Wins East Anglia Two Inter-Array Cable Contract.
• October 31st, 2024 – Sif, Smulders to Deliver Monopiles and TPs For ScottishPower’s East Anglia Two Offshore Wind Farm.

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 AnonW | Energy, Hydrogen | Bacton Gas Terminal, East Anglia Array, Iberdrola, Offshore Hydrogen Production, Offshore Wind Power, Peel Ports, Port Of Great Yarmouth, ScottishPower, Wind Power