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Humber Gateway opens; more turbines for Clyde onshore

E.ON’s Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm has been opened by Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, Andrea Leadsom, although the 73-turbine wind farm, located 8 km off the Holderness coast, went into full operation in May.

The Minister, along with local MP Melanie Onn and Michael Lewis, Chief Operating Officer for E.ON Climate and Renewables, also christened the vessels serving the site. The Spirit of Hoton, the Spirit of Sunthorp and the Spirit of Turmarr, built by UK-based Alicat Workboats, are named after villages lost through coastal erosion along the Holderness coast.

In February, a £2mn Community Benefit Fund was launched by E.ON to help make a positive difference to local communities close to the wind farm. From this fund, £100,000 has been donated to community projects across East Yorkshire, supporting projects in parishes which border the wind farm between Easington and Preston, ranging from improvements to facilities at a football club to increasing the number of rural internet connections in the area. A further £100,000 is to be made available next year.

Meanwhile, Siemens has received an order for the supply, installation and commissioning of 54 direct drive wind turbines to add another 173 MW of generating capacity to SSE’s Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. With an existing capacity of 350 MW, Clyde is already the third-largest wind farm in Europe. Existing turbines are Siemens 2.3 MW units, commissioned in 2011 and 2012; the additional 54 turbines will each have a capacity of 3.2 MW.

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