HORNSEA PROJECT ONE & TWO.OFFSHORE WIND FARMS.
In early July I attended an exhibition staged by Orsted at Grimsby Town Hall about the “Hornsea Project One & Two , Offshore wind farms”.
This exhibition was designed to provide information to the public eg:
• It is located 89Km off the coast,
• Provides enough power for well over 2.3 million homes,
• Project one covers an area equal to 58,500 Blundell Park football pitches.
As I walked around the exhibition, I discovered that a lot of thought went into the reasons for positioning the wind farm in the North Sea; a simple one being the need for plenty of wind. Where the cable comes ashore, the entire route from Horseshoe Point to Immingham* has been excavated by a team of archaeologists and an Anglo Saxon site has been identified at Laceby.
The turbines (except the generator) will be built in Hull and ferried out to the North Sea.
Come and learn more at out next meeting “Wind Energy” by Emma Toulson of Orsted at Grimsby Town Hall Thursday 20th September at 7.30pm.
M.Turner, Executive Committee
*you have perhaps seen evidence of these excavations sweeping through the countryside in recent months