Madrid 11 (European press)
Iberdrola in the UK has begun building the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm, a 1,400 megawatt (MW) facility that, together with the rest of the complex, will mobilize £6,500 million (€7,700 million), the largest investment in this iconic technology.
The Spanish company will build a large complex with two other park developments East Anglia One North and East Anglia Two with a total capacity of 3,000 megawatts, 6% of the country’s offshore wind generation target, the company confirmed Thursday to a statement.
In the case of East Anglia Three, the energy company expects to be up and running in 2025 and its production will provide clean energy to 1.3 million homes. Up to 7,000 people will be employed in the construction phase.
The park under construction will also join East Anglia One, which is operated by Iberdrola through its ScottishPower subsidiary and has 714 megawatts of power and the capacity to produce power for 630,000 British homes.
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The first phase of works will focus on ground work. In collaboration with Siemens and Acker Solutions, the park’s onshore substation will be installed in Suffolk County and connected to the national power grid.
East Anglia Three will occupy an area of 305 square kilometers, where more than a hundred new generations of wind turbines will be installed at an altitude of up to 247 meters.
Likewise, it will have four offshore substations, a platform to house operations and four offshore cables to export the produced energy to the coast.
The seventh park of the airport
When production begins, it will become the company’s seventh farm, which already has the aforementioned 1 East Anglia Farm and two other farms located in the Irish Sea and German Baltic waters in service.
Similarly, the Spanish company is building three large facilities in France, the United States and Germany, with investments of 2,500 million euros in the first and 3,500 million euros in the second.
Offshore wind energy has been one of the group’s bets since the company began leading it two decades ago. Of the 7,000 MW the company has under construction or secured by long-term purchase agreements, 78.5% correspond to offshore projects.
Thus, this capacity has already taken up 30% of the new capacity installed by the group during the first half of the year. In the coming years, Iberdrola will make investments of about 30,000 million euros worldwide with the goal of having 12,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy in operation by 2030.
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