Thanet Wind Farm

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The wind farm is Thanet offshore wind farm in the southwestern North Sea off the mouth of the Thames about twelve kilometers north-east of the headland Foreness Point on the coast of Thanet in Kent, England. At the time of its recording operation in September 2010 he was the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

Construction

The wind farm consists of 100 wind turbines with wind turbines Vestas V90- 3.0 MW turbine with a rotor diameter of 90 m with an installed capacity of 3 MW each, for a total of about 300 MW. The 100 wind turbines (WT ) are spread over an area of about 35 km ². The North Sea has a water depth of about 20 to 25 m at this point.

The generated power is transformed to an installed transformer platform in the sea by a voltage of 33 kV at the output of wind turbines on 132 kV. About two submarine cables this higher voltage that the 1996 decommissioned power plant Richborough Power Station (51 ° 18 ' 37 " N, 1 ° 20' 45 " O51.3103891.345739 ) on the site of the former military port Richborough port is routed to a substation on land, near Sandwich is where the feeding takes place in the nationwide power grid.

History

The wind farm North Hoyle is part of the " Round 2 " of the development program for offshore wind farms, the Crown Estate, which began in early 2004.

The wind farm was developed by Thanet Offshore Wind Ltd., a project company of Warwick Energy Ltd.. Warwick gave the project to the hedge fund Christofferson, Robb & Co., who in turn sold the project in 2008 to Vattenfall UK.

On 22 September 2010, the wind farm in the presence of the British Energy Minister Chris Huhne was officially inaugurated. So He replaced as the most powerful offshore wind farm in the world the wind farm Horns Rev II. Falsely he was frequently referred to in the media at the opening as " the largest wind farm in the world "; but he was actually at the time of operation recording only the largest offshore wind farm in the world (see also List of offshore wind farms ).

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