Blyth Offshore Wind Farm
Encyclopedia
Blyth Offshore Wind Farm is a small coastal wind farm
located 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland
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, Shell Renewables
, NUON
and Border Wind. E.ON are in charge of operating the farm.
The project was the UK
's first offshore wind farm, as well as being the largest offshore turbines erected in the world at the time.
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
located 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland
Blyth, Northumberland
Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne...
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History
Commissioned in December 2000 as a pilot project, the project was developed by a consortium that included E.ONE.ON UK
E.ON UK is an energy company in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company. As Powergen, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but since 1 July 2002 has been owned by E.ON AG of...
, Shell Renewables
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
, NUON
Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish power company. The name Vattenfall is Swedish for waterfall, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board...
and Border Wind. E.ON are in charge of operating the farm.
The project was the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
's first offshore wind farm, as well as being the largest offshore turbines erected in the world at the time.