We are developing one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, London Array, located in the Thames Estuary. If commissioned the wind farm could supply up to a quarter of London’s power and offset the emission of 1.9million tonnes of harmful greenhouse gases each year.

We have also begun construction on Robin Rigg, a 180MW offshore wind farm located in the Solway Firth. Once complete Robin Rigg will be one of the largest wind farms in UK waters.

We are fully committed to developing further offshore schemes - we currently have four offshore schemes in various stages of development– London Array, Scarweather Sands, Humber Wind and Robin Rigg.

Although increased wind speeds are available offshore construction of wind farms offshore is more complicated than on land due to the variable nature of the seabed and the range of different sea conditions, therefore we expect in the future to be building a mixture of onshore and offshore schemes.

Did you know...

• The metal parts of the turbine structures are specially coated to protect them from corrosion.
• That less than 1% of the UK’s seabed would be needed to site enough turbines to generate 40% of the UK’s electricity.
• The DTI estimates that offshore wind could supply the UK’s electricity demand 10 times over.
• The lower section of the wind turbine support towers are painted bright colours in order to provide navigational aids and highlight the structure for passing vessels.