Scroby Sands wind farm
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The Scroby Sands wind farm is a wind farm located in the North Sea, 2.5 km off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, and erected in 2003-4.
The farm was commissioned by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of one of the UK's major electricity producing companies (now called E.ON), and is expected to produce up to a maximum of 60 megawatts of power, enough for 41000 homes
The farm has 30 wind turbines, each with three 40 metre blades rotating around a centre-point some 60 metres above the mean sea level on hollow 4.5 metre diameter steel masts, in from 13 to 20 metres depth of water. The masts are piled up to 30 metres into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands.
The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Danish firm, Vestas. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 megawatts.
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- Capital Grant Scheme for Offshore Wind Annual Report – January 2005 – December 2005 from the Department of Trade and Industry. The main finding being that - apparently owning to a series of bearing failures, and four generator failures - production in the year was less to 30% of the farm's capacity (albeit this represents production of 90% of the farm's forecast annual output.
- Performance report into wind farm from the BBC, based on the above report.
