Anh: Start wind farm project

Energy company E. ON, United Kingdom, announced: the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm project (to be built off the East Yorkshire coast, north of the Humber River mouth) consists of an array of 73 turbines will generate a total output of 219MW of electricity per hour, enough to power about 170,000 households. E.ON will start construction of an onshore transformer station in March 2012, and is expected to complete the project in the spring of 2015.

"Increasing the production of electrical energy from renewable energy sources, low emissions of CO2 is our target. (E.ON company), in an effort to address challenges in the field. energy supply area, " said Dr. Tony Cocker, executive director of E. ON United Kingdom.

The objective of this project is to create 1,000 jobs during construction and 30 other jobs to operate and maintain the operation of the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm.

"The program invests in offshore wind farms, worth £ 1.7 billion, including: Humber Gateway (219MW) off the coast of the United Kingdom; Amrumbank (288MW) off the coast of Germany; and Kårehamn (48MW) off the Swedish coast , " according to E.ON energy company.

Offshore wind farm (Amrumbank) will be the first commercial wind farm of E.ON, built in Germany, equipped with a range of 3.0MW Siemens turbines; while offshore wind farms (Humber Gateway and Kårehamn) will be equipped with 3.0 MW Vestas V112 turbines.

Offshore wind farm projects are part of a £ 7 billion investment program over the next five years, according to E.ON Energy, which will build on an industrial scale of power plants. from sources: biofuels, solar energy and wind energy.