Through our subsidiary company Humber Wind Limited, we submitted a planning application to build Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm off the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire. We received offshore planning consent for the project on February 9 2011.

With a capacity of 230MW, the proposed project would produce enough clean, renewable energy to power up to 150,000 homes (1).

The wind farm, which would have up to 77 turbines, could displace up to 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year (2).The scheme will also provide employment and contract opportunities during construction and operation in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
 
E.ON Project Manager for the project, Matthew Swanwick, said:

"This wind farm will be one of the biggest in the UK and will play a vital role in the fight against climate change.  

It will displace the emission of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year and will ensure that East Yorkshire makes a significant contribution to helping the Government meet its tough renewable energy targets".

Click here to view the national press release (PDF, 37.9KB)

Click here to view the local press release (PDF, 110KB)

In April 2008, we submitted an Environmental Statement for the offshore components and onshore cable route. An Environmental Statement was submitted in November 2009 for the onshore substation and cable spur.

Click here to view the non-technical summary of the offshore environmental statement and onshore cable route (PDF, 3MB)

Click here to view the non-technical summary of the onshore substation and cable spur environmental statement (PDF, 2.5MB)

(1) Based on an average annual domestic household consumption of 4,725 kWh (source, BERR)

(2) The carbon dioxide savings are current estimates based on the predicted energy yield from site wind measurements and the fact that every unit of wind energy generated displaces conventional carbon-based generation in the UK energy mix.