On October 21, 2008 Centrica received the official consent to develop a 250 MW offshore wind farm, off the Lincolnshire coast (UK).Lincs project will be situated at 8 km off the coast east of Skegness and will be next to the recent offshore wind farm developments at Lynn and Inner Dowsing, currently the biggest offshore wind farm in the world.
The completion of Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms (194 MW rated power in total) has taken UK in to the lead of world offshore wind industry, bringing UK total installed capacity to a total of about 600 MW. The installation of all the wind turbines was completed during last summer and at the moment 45 of the 54 3.6 Siemens turbines are fully commissioned and producing power. The wind farm is expected to be fully operational by the end the year.
Centrica has also in the pipeline two further projects off the Lincolnshire coast: “Docking Shoal and Race Bank”. These two further offshore wind farms will give further support to Centrica to become a big player in the renewable energy sector, adding 1,000 MW to their wind generating capacity.
Posted by: Filippo
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