Overview
- Project owners ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar said on Monday that all 95 monopiles and their transition pieces have been installed, allowing turbine fitting to advance.
- The windfarm will use 95 Siemens Gamesa 14+ MW turbines with 115-metre blades to produce about 1.4 GW of capacity, which developers say can power roughly 1.3 million UK homes.
- Seaway7 carried out the offshore foundation work with its jack-up vessel Seaway Ventus, and manufacturers Haizea Wind Group and the Navantia-Windar consortium supplied the monopiles while Windar delivered the transition pieces.
- Developers describe the steel monopiles as among the largest installed from a jack-up vessel in Europe, weighing 1,200–1,800 tonnes and reaching diameters up to 10.6 metres, with transition pieces about 20 metres tall and over 400 tonnes each.
- The £4 billion project has driven almost £2 billion of UK supply-chain investment, supports about 2,300 construction jobs, is expected to create roughly 100 long-term roles in the East of England, and remains scheduled for full commercial operation by the end of 2026.