One of the leading British energy companies SSE and the Norwegian Equinor will build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
According to Bloomberg , the facility, dubbed the Dogger Bank, will be located off the east coast of England, will have turbines the size of a skyscraper and will generate enough renewable electricity to meet 5% of Britain’s needs, or the equivalent of six million homes.
The decision came just days after the European Union announced $ 940 billion in wind energy to meet stricter pollution targets, as well as after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “green” plan to support renewable energy.
The total investment in the first two phases of the project will be about 6 billion pounds ($ 8 billion). Each phase has a capacity of 1,200 MW and generates about 6,000 gigawatt-hours.
It will be recalled that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has announced a plan worth 12 billion pounds ($ 15.9 billion) to stimulate “green” industry and combat climate change. Offshore wind energy is central to its plan.