The world’s largest offshore wind farm has started feeding power into the British grid for the first time as turbines started spinning at the site.
The first turbines on the Dogger Bank wind farm, which is still under construction, produced their first electricity. Although far from complete, if Dogger Bank’s 277 wind turbines were producing at maximum capacity at midday on Tuesday, it would have been able to produce around 10% of all the electricity being used at that point. Its 3.6 gigawatts of capacity makes it the largest offshore wind farm in the world and it also has the largest number of turbines of any offshore wind farm.
At the time of writing the price of a megawatt hour of electricity in Great Britain was considerably higher, at £117 per MWh. It is being developed and built by SSE Renewables, Norway’s Equinor and Vargronn. “Dogger Bank will provide a significant boost to UK energy security, affordability and leadership in tackling climate change. This is exactly how we should be responding to the energy crisis,” said SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies.
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