The largest wind farm in the world. Electricity for 1.4 million homes

Hornsey 2 is the largest wind farm in the world. The facility, which has just been launched off the coast of Great Britain, will provide electricity to 1.4 million homes. Eventually, four Hornsey family farms would be built.

The world’s largest wind farm, Hornsea 2, is built 89 kilometers off the Yorkshire coast. The farm, which consists of 165 turbines, can operate at a maximum power of 1.3 gigawatts. It will provide electricity to 1.4 million British homes. As we read on the official website of the project, one cycle of the turbine will provide electricity for a typical house for 24 hours.

The Hornsea 2 construction turbine was supplied by Siemens Gamesa. The capacity of each of the windmills is 8 megawatts. The total area of ​​the farm is 462 square kilometers, or up to 64 thousand. Football fields.

The Hornsey 1 project has also been in operation for two years, which also provides electricity to more than a million homes. The Hornsea 3 farm, with a capacity of 2.8 gigawatts, is already planned to be built. Together, these three facilities will occupy an area of ​​2,000 square metres. square kilometres. The fourth farm within Hornsey Park is already in the early planning stage.

So the British coast would be full of huge turbines. as we read On the project websitethe height of one shovel is 81 meters, and the height of two windmills is more than 200 meters above sea level.

Offshore wind energy plays a very important role in the British energy sector. According to the plan of the local government, offshore power plants with a total capacity of 50 gigawatts will be operational by 2030. According to the data subscriber By British authorities, the capacity of this technology is currently 10 gigawatts.

Wind energy development brings double benefits. This was pointed out by Duncan Clark of the British branch of the Danish company Oersted, responsible for the construction of Hornsey 2.

Hornsea 2 will not only provide clean, cheap energy to millions of homes in the UK, but also thousands of high-quality jobs and billions of pounds of investment in the UK wind energy supply chain. We look forward to working with government and industry colleagues to continue accelerating the deployment of offshore wind energy for the benefit of homes and businesses across the country.