At the end of the year, we learned in Spain that the world’s largest offshore wind farm was about to start operating. The structure of 165 turbines concentrated on the east coast of England will provide light for 2.3 million households. Now according to take BBC, Hornsea 2 wind farm it’s finished fully operational and ready to supply full power.
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As the Hornsea 2 program director explained, the wind farm has entered full operation “after 5 years of working to have full commercial operations on the world’s largest offshore wind farm”. And it’s no less, because of those garden figures dizzy.
165 closed turbine in an area of 462 square kilometers, each of these turbines is 200 meters high with 3 blades 81 meters high. The park is located about 89 kilometers from the coast, which makes them difficult to see, but they are engineering monsters ready to go, produce more than 1.3 gigawatts.
Working
Hornsea 2 kicks off in 2021, having been tuned to deliver its “first power”. One turn of the blade can power a British house for 24 hours, and since each spin only takes six seconds, that means they benefit. more than 14,000 houses every day for each turbine.
All of this energy will be supplied via a 373 kilometer cable network, originating from reactive compensation stations, which together with other substations (OSS and CA) have served the construction of the park.
Offshore Wind Turbine
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This cable passes through the array to OSS and RCS, reaching the UK national network via 390 kilometers of offshore export cable, plus a further 40 kilometers terminating at the Killingholme onshore substation.
The launch comes at the right time because of the gas problems Europe is experiencing as a result of sanctions against Russia. The UK is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this situation, as more than 96% of its supply comes from sources other than Russia, but this is a necessary finishing touch. for the country to decide even more from fossil fuels.
But Hornsea didn’t stop there. There will be two more projects; Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4, which are currently in the early stages of development. The idea is that the UK is fully into renewable energy, achieving 0 net emissions by 2050.
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