World's biggest offshore wind farm off English coast approved
Energy Secretary Ed Davey has given development consent for what is planned to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, a project which should see 288 turbines located off Lincolnshire and Norfolk. The Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm consent also includes on and offshore sub-stations, meteorological stations and underwater cabling.
The scheme was examined as a nationally significant infrastructure project by the Planning Inspectorate.
Chief executive Sir Michael Pitt said. “This was the largest offshore wind energy application to be examined by the Planning Inspectorate and required a Panel of three Examining Inspectors who were given the task of considering the evidence put to them by the interested parties.
“The examination of the application was completed within the timescales prescribed in the Planning Act and a recommendation made to the Energy Secretary. His decision supported their recommendation.”
Meanwhile, the Inspectorate has announced that the application from Channel Energy Ltd for its proposed Atlantic Array offshore wind farm has been accepted, by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for examination.
This proposed 240-turbine development which would be located in English and Welsh waters within the Bristol Channel, approximately 15.5 kilometres from the north Devon coast and 22 km from the south Wales coast is the first cross-boundary scheme to be examined by the Planning Inspectorate
Last week the Prime Minister formally opened the London Array in the Thames Estuary, currently the largest operating wind farm in the world.
Read the Planning Inspectorate press release
Roger Milne
18 July 2013
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