-:Undertaker:-
12-07-2013, 03:29 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361335/Worlds-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-300-turbines-built-Lincolnshire.html
World's biggest offshore wind farm with 300 turbines will be built in Lincolnshire
- Work on the Triton Knoll site can now begin after the £3.6bn project was given the go ahead
- It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility unveiled last week by David Cameron
- When complete the windfarm will generate enough power for 820,000 homes
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/12/article-2361335-1AC5E441000005DC-486_634x440.jpg
Go-ahead: An offshore wind farm off the coast of Skegness in Lincolnshire
Plans to create the world's biggest offshore wind farm off the coast of Britain have been approved.
Work on the massive Triton Knoll site - 288 giant wind turbines off the Lincolnshire coast - can now begin after the £3.6bn project was given the go ahead.
It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility, the 175-turbine London Array in the Thames Estuary unveiled last week by David Cameron.
When complete, the new giant windfarm will generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power for 820,000 homes.
But critics say it will not come without a cost, as offshore power is currently subsidised by the taxpayer at three time the wholesale price of conventionally-produced electricity.
And the scheme is not without controversy. As part of the project, energy giant RWE are proposing building a substation the size of 30 football pitches connected to the offshore turbines, in the Lincolnshire countryside.
Anyone who knows anything about energy and its production will understand that this is £3.6bn (along with costs to the taxpayer with the bills we'll have to pay coupled with future dismantling costs) literally pissed down the drain and flushed into the sea.
I was going to post last week a report that came out by the energy watchdog warning exactly what I and others (aka UKIP and similar organisations) have said for years - that Britain now faces the looming threat of energy blackouts and if not that, a steep continued rise in our fuel and energy bills. And why? for absolutely nothing. None of this actually needs to be done yet our insane government does it - not that it has a choice mind, as the EU largely dictates our energy policy in regards to this area.
Thoughts?
World's biggest offshore wind farm with 300 turbines will be built in Lincolnshire
- Work on the Triton Knoll site can now begin after the £3.6bn project was given the go ahead
- It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility unveiled last week by David Cameron
- When complete the windfarm will generate enough power for 820,000 homes
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/12/article-2361335-1AC5E441000005DC-486_634x440.jpg
Go-ahead: An offshore wind farm off the coast of Skegness in Lincolnshire
Plans to create the world's biggest offshore wind farm off the coast of Britain have been approved.
Work on the massive Triton Knoll site - 288 giant wind turbines off the Lincolnshire coast - can now begin after the £3.6bn project was given the go ahead.
It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility, the 175-turbine London Array in the Thames Estuary unveiled last week by David Cameron.
When complete, the new giant windfarm will generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power for 820,000 homes.
But critics say it will not come without a cost, as offshore power is currently subsidised by the taxpayer at three time the wholesale price of conventionally-produced electricity.
And the scheme is not without controversy. As part of the project, energy giant RWE are proposing building a substation the size of 30 football pitches connected to the offshore turbines, in the Lincolnshire countryside.
Anyone who knows anything about energy and its production will understand that this is £3.6bn (along with costs to the taxpayer with the bills we'll have to pay coupled with future dismantling costs) literally pissed down the drain and flushed into the sea.
I was going to post last week a report that came out by the energy watchdog warning exactly what I and others (aka UKIP and similar organisations) have said for years - that Britain now faces the looming threat of energy blackouts and if not that, a steep continued rise in our fuel and energy bills. And why? for absolutely nothing. None of this actually needs to be done yet our insane government does it - not that it has a choice mind, as the EU largely dictates our energy policy in regards to this area.
Thoughts?