Scroby Sands offshore wind farm, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK.
The Scroby Sands Wind Farm is a wind farm located on the Scroby Sands sandbank in the North Sea, kilometres ( mi) off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, United Kingdom. It was commissioned in March 2004 by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of UK. It is expected to produce up to a maximum of 60 megawatts of power, enough for supply of 41,000 households. The farm consist of 30 wind turbines, each with three 40-metre (130 ft) blades rotating around a centre-point some 60 metres (200 ft) above the mean sea level on hollow metres ( ft) diameter steel masts, in from 13-to-20-metre (43 to 66 ft) depth of water. The masts are piled up to 30 metres (98 ft) into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands. The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Danish firm, Vestas. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 megawatts. Turbines were installed by the Danish offshore wind farms services provider A2SEA.
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Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Renewable Energy / Alamy / Afripics
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