ScottishPower Renewables has selected Siemens Gamesa as preferred bidder to supply and install turbines for its 3100MW East Anglia Hub complex in the southern North Sea.
The developer said more than 200 14MW-plus turbines are planned for the £6.5bn project, which incorporates the 1.4GW East Anglia 3, 800MW East Anglia 1 North and 900MW East Anglia 2 sites.
Details of the deal were first reported in subscriber-only reNEWS on 3 December.
SPR and Siemens Gamesa are collaborating ahead of this year’s CfD4 auction to optimise the projects, with the ambition of then signing turbine supply and installation agreements.
The developer said the early preferred bidder agreement will allow the two companies to collaborate develop the turbine design and the Hub programme hand-in-hand , which will help achieve further efficiencies and maximise local supply chain opportunities.
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It is the first privately funded interconnector in Europe and will connect EirGrid s Great Island 220kV substation and the UK National Grid s Pembroke transmission substation, with separate applications required on both sides of the Irish sea.
Planning permission has been sought from An Bord Pleanála for a new converter station, tail station and MV substation at Great Island, 23km of high voltage direct current (HVDC) electricity cables, 420m of high voltage alternating current (HVAC) cables, 23.42km of fibre optic cable, 54 car parking spaces on the access road to Baginbun Beach and the provision of footpaths and street lighting in Ramsgrange village as community benefit projects along with various temporary construction, cable and drilling compounds, on an overall proposed development site of more than 200 acres.
Yves here. Nuclear power as part of a low/no carbon energy future is a very contentious idea. Yet battery storage devices have their own environmental costs, and there are losses in moving energy into and out of them. In other words, there are no perfectly clean answers, save perhaps radical conservation, which peculiarly seems to be a verboten topic.
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Declining solar, wind, and battery technology costs are helping to grow the share of renewables in the world’s power mix to the point that governments are pledging net-zero emission electricity generation in two to three decades to fight global warming. Yet, electricity grids will continue to require stable baseload to incorporate growing shares of renewable energy sources and ensure lights are on even when the sun doesn’t shine, or the wind doesn’t blow. Unti