E.ON Climate & Renewables
Montag, 4 Januar 2010
“The availability of suitable ports for construction and maintenance activities, coupled with favourable wind and wave conditions and a flat, stable seabed, make the Humber an ideal location for us to develop a major offshore wind farm.” Vaughan Weighill, Development Manager Humber Gateway, E.ON Climate & Renewables.
E.ON is one of the UK’s largest integrated power and gas companies and is committed to reducing the carbon intensity of its emissions across Europe by 50% by 2030. To achieve this, E.ON is investing billions of pounds in renewable energy projects around the world. As a major part of this investment, E.ON has submitted a planning application for an offshore wind farm located off the East Yorkshire coast, known as Humber Gateway.
The proposed scheme will host up to 83 turbines. With a maximum installed capacity of 300MW, it will generate enough clean energy to power up to 195,000 homes per year.
The Humber Gateway site is located off the East Yorkshire Coast, 8km to the east of Spurn Point and was chosen ahead of a number of alternatives due to the area’s high winds, low waves, flat and stable seabed and availability of suitable ports for construction and maintenance of the turbines.
If the site receives government approval it would signal a major boost to the local economy, creating job opportunities during the construction phase, contracts for local suppliers and also longer term benefits to local service industries.
E.ON already owns and operates a 7-turbine onshore wind farm at Out Newton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.