Iberdrola is building a 1,400MW offshore wind farm

East Anglia Three (UK)

Iberdrola is building a 1,400 MW offshore wind farm. Iberdrola has started building an offshore wind farm East Anglia Three in the UK. It will have a capacity of 1,400 megawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes with clean energy, more than the residents of Liverpool and Glasgow combined.

This new facility, located off the coast of Norfolk, near the metropolitan area of ​​London, will form part of the larger East Anglia Hub complex. Along with future developments in East Antlia One North and East Anglia Two. This axis constitutes the largest initiative of this technology for the Iberdrola group in the world and will include an investment of 6,500 million pounds for the installation of 3,000 megawatts. This means covering 6% of the 50 GW offshore wind capacity target set by the UK government for 2030.

Scotch Power

The new park is also added to the park already operated by the company through its ScottishPower subsidiary in the same area, called East Anglia One, with a capacity of 714 megawatts, capable of producing renewable energy for 630,000 British homes.

Construction work for this plant, which is expected to go into production in 2025, has begun with ground work. The initial phase will focus on the installation in Suffolk County, in collaboration with Siemens and Aker Solutions. From the ground station that will connect the park to the national electricity grid and into the cable route, awarded to NKT.

305 square kilometers

The East Anglia Three will cover an area of ​​up to 305 square kilometers and will require the installation of more than a hundred new generations of wind turbines. It will reach a height of 247 metres, which is twice and a half the size of Big Ben (96 metres).

This large electrical infrastructure will also contain four offshore substations, and a marine platform that will house the accommodations for operations. and four subsea cables to export to the coast from the energy produced by the wind farm located 69 kilometers offshore.

7000 jobs

The construction of the East Anglia hub will provide a major boost to the industry-related supply chain sea ​​wind from the UK and Europe and will create up to 7,000 jobs.

East Anglia Three will become the company’s seventh offshore wind farm. The group has already commissioned facilities west of Dodon Sands (195 MW), in the Irish Sea; Wikinger (350 MW) in German waters of the Baltic Sea; and East Anglia One.

France

The company also currently has three other large offshore facilities under construction. In France, what will be the country’s first large offshore wind farm is being constructed, Saint-Brieuc, which has a capacity of approximately 500 megawatts and an investment of 2,500 euros, which will generate enough clean energy to meet the electricity consumption of 835,000 people once it is operational in 2023.

United State

In the United States, Iberdrola, with an investment of about 2,500 million euros, is building what will be the country’s first commercial-scale wind farm, Vineyard Wind 1 (806 MW). Off the coast of Massachusetts. This installation will be able to meet the energy needs of more than 400,000 homes and will prevent the emission of more than 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Germany

In Germany, the group has begun building its second major offshore wind energy initiative in the country, after Wikinger. The 476-megawatt park, dubbed Baltic Eagle, will be able to cover the demand of 475,000 homes and avoid emitting nearly one million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. The company also plans to develop a third offshore project in this region: Windanker (300 MW). The three renewable facilities together will create the largest offshore wind complex in the Baltic Sea. With a total installed capacity of 1,100 megawatts and a joint investment of nearly 3,500 million euros.

Offshore wind, the key to Iberdrola’s growth

Like the Iberdrola Group, it has been a pioneer in promoting onshore wind energy for more than two decades. Today the company is leading the development of offshore wind energy, which is one of the keys to the growth of the company, which began its commitment 15 years ago.

Thus, of the 7,000 megawatts of wind power it currently has under construction or secured by long-term contracts (PPA). More than 5,500 megawatts (78.5%) correspond to offshore projects. This technology had already provided 30% of the group’s new installed capacity at the end of the first half.

Projects in Japan, Sweden, Ireland, Poland, Taiwan and the Philippines

The company focuses on countries with ambitious renewable targets, and has an important portfolio of projects in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Ireland, Poland, Taiwan, the Philippines, the United States and the United Kingdom. In the coming years, Iberdrola will make investments of about 30,000 million euros worldwide. With a goal of having 12,000 MW of offshore wind capacity in operation by 2030, Iberdrola is building a 1,400 MW offshore wind farm.