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| Scroby Sands wind farm | |
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| Official name: Scroby Sands wind farm | |
| Country | United Kingdom, England |
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| Region | East of England |
| District | Great Yarmouth (borough) |
| Municipality | Great Yarmouth |
| For public | Visitor Center |
| Visitation | North Drive
Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR30 1ED (open daily from 26 May until the end of October) |
| Website: http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/scrobysands.aspx | |
The Scroby Sands wind farm is a wind farm located in the North Sea, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, United Kingdom, and erected in 2003-4.
The farm was commissioned by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of one of the UK's major electricity producing companies (now called E.ON UK), and is expected to produce up to a maximum of 60 megawatts of power, enough for 41,000 homes
The farm has 30 wind turbines, each with three 40 metre blades rotating around a centre-point some 60 metres (200 ft) above the mean sea level on hollow 4.5 metres (14.8 ft) diameter steel masts, in from 13 m (43 ft) to 20 m (66 ft) depth of water. The masts are piled up to 30 metres (98 ft) into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands.
The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Danish firm, Vestas. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 megawatts.
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Tourism
The wind farm has an information centre serving around 35,000 visitors per year, and has become a local attraction.[1][2]
Gallery
 Wind farm at Great Yarmouth |
 Wind farm at Great Yarmouth |
 View of the wind farm from Hemsby |
 A Jackup rig servicing one of the wind turbines |
See also
References
- ^ "Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm, United Kingdom". powertechnology.com. http://www.power-technology.com/projects/scrobysands/. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ "Tourism and wind farms". E.ON UK. http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/tourism.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
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- Capital Grant Scheme for Offshore Wind Annual Report – January 2005 – December 2005 from the Department of Trade and Industry. The main finding being that - apparently owning to a series of bearing failures, and four generator failures - production in the year was less to 30% of the farm's nameplate capacity (albeit this represents production of 90% of the farm's forecast annual output.
- Performance report into wind farm from the BBC, based on the above report.
- E.ON UK - Scroby Sands E.ON's page about Scroby Sands.
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