Constructing Hornsea Two, the world’s largest offshore wind farm

[Gurci]

Pamela Largue - September 1, 2022
Ørsted has announced that the 1.3GW Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm comprising 165 wind turbines is now fully operational.
The wind farm is located 89km off the Yorkshire Coast, alongside its sibling Hornsea 1. Together, Hornsea 1 and 2 can power 2.5 million UK homes.
Each wind turbine blade is 81m long and the blade tip reaches more than 200m above sea level 0:25
Source: Power Engineering International

[Muppetkeeper]

Would love more updates on Hornsea 2, I’m sure that some turbines must be up and running by now, but can’t find any info.

[gareth]

The key is to build overcapacity, around 200% the UK needs 80GW will provide consistent cheap energy and near free energy half the year. We are already also building interconnectors to the mainland to export this precious resource. Theres about 2000GW potential in UK waters with current tech, add floating tech and the UK could be the Saudia Arabia of wind power. The Russians are not even going to be able to compete on costs, hence why they are playing thier hand now

[carletouk]

Was down from 24% in 2020 to 8% in 2021 of total U.K. used electric so is still at the mercy of the weather gods

[Pukkpukkpukk]

Just a whopping 17 jobs open on their site.

[malcolmanon]

The scale of progress can be measured like this:

The first offshore turbine in the UK was at Vindeby in 1991, it was 54m tall and generated 0.4MW. Now we are installing GE's Haliade X design - which is 260m tall with a 220m diameter rotor, and generates, 12MW.

[anglosaxonmike]

Blades cannot be recycled, full of toxic glues etc. The huge amounts of
balsa comes from the rain forests. It all ends up in landfill. The
enormous amount of concrete and steel is left in the ground. A wind
turbine can never save as much carbon as it takes to make it.
Today, the UK demand is 38GW, quite low. The output from the entire UK wind industry is 1GW.
Explain how this is a/ usefull, b/ viable.