The UK’s SSE Renewables and France’s TotalEnergies have completed the construction of the 1.1 GW Seagreen offshore wind park, located off Scotland (United Kingdom), as the final turbine of the project has been installed. The project comprises 114 turbines with a capacity of 10 MW supplied by Vestas. 76 of those turbines have already been energised. Once fully operational, the Seagreen project will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind park and will be capable of generating around 5 TWh of renewable energy, enough to supply power to about 1.6 million UK households.
In 2022, the Scottish government approved a request by SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies to expand the Seagreen offshore wind project by 500 MW, bringing the project’s total installed capacity to 1,640 MW.
Scotland targets 11 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030. At the national level, the United Kingdom aims to reach 50 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 (13.8 GW as of end 2022).
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