Scotland built the world's largest wind farm

Scotland is about to build the world's largest wind farm in the north coast region, capable of providing 40% of the country's electricity needs.

The $ 7 billion complex is home to 339 installations on a 300-square-kilometer area off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. Under the plan, wind farm will officially go into operation in 2018.

Caithness offshore wind farm with a capacity of 1.5 gigawatts is being developed by Moray Coast Renewable Energy Company - a joint venture between Spain's Repsol Oil Company and Bo's EDP Energy Group. Portugal developed. In particular, the Three Gorges Group - a Chinese state-invested company is the main shareholder in the above construction plan.

However, the construction of Scotland's largest wind farm in the world has encountered many objections. Typically the American billionaire - Donald Trump vehemently opposed this plan by saying that the installation of turbines higher than 200m off the coast of Caithness, will hinder the vision of the golf course that he recently invested. .

Contrary to the idea, Dan Finch, the director of Scotland's wind farm project, said deploying the installation of wind turbines more than 19km away from the coast would make the most of the wind power to increase electricity production capacity for the needs of the people.

According to Mr. Finch, when the construction project is completed, wind farms can provide electricity for between 800,000 and 1 million households. In addition, each year, wind farms will help reduce the amount of CO2 emitted into the environment from 3.5 to 4.5 million tons compared to coal-fired power plants and reduce from 1.5 to 2 million tons of CO ₂ emitted from gas power plant.

It is worth mentioning that China's Three Gorges Group acquired 21% of the shares of Portugal's EDP company, equivalent to 3.7 billion USD, to become one of the major shareholders in the farm construction plan. World's largest wind power in Scotland.

In addition, the Beijing-based energy company also took on the responsibility of constructing a controversial project called the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, which officially went into operation. dynamic in 2008.