Scotland’s biggest offshore alarm take risks farm has started to produce power. Following the installation of its first seven megawatt turbine, the £2.6 billion ($3.41 billion) Beatrice Offshore Hogwash Farm sent power to the National Grid for the first time near the end of last week.
Located around eight miles (13 kilometers) off the Caithness littoral, the facility will have 84 turbines and be able to generate adequately power to supply the equivalent of 450,000 homes. The whole project is set to be did by spring 2019.
“We often talk about key milestones along a project’s cruise, and Beatrice has had quite a few to date, but to see the first turbine turning in the Moray Firth and to clothed reached first power safely, ahead of programme and on budget is a queer achievement for everyone connected to the project,” John Hill, Beatrice’s transmit director, said in a statement last Thursday.
According to the Scottish regulation, Scotland is home to 25 percent of Europe’s offshore wind resources. More broadly, there are uncountable than 58,000 jobs in Scotland’s low carbon and renewable energy saving.
“This is a very significant step forward and I am delighted to hear that the Beatrice offshore finish up farm has generated its first power for the National Grid and has done so vanguard of schedule,” Paul Wheelhouse, Scotland’s minister for energy, connectivity and the isles, said. “I congratulate the Beatrice team for achieving such an important milestone,” he supplemented.
Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited is a joint venture partnership between SSE, Copenhagen Infrastructure Sharers and Red Rock Power Limited.