New Energy
UK Plans Grid Links to Speed Floating Offshore Wind Farms
- Wind farms to be connnected to South Wales, southwest England
- Floating offshore wind power is relatively new to the UK
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The UK’s electricity system operator has designed a plan to connect three proposed floating offshore wind farms with the grid, as the country’s decarbonization drive picks up speed.
National Grid ESO has planned the links for 4.5 gigawatts of floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea, an area of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Wales and southwest England. The connections have been designed before seabed leasing takes place for the wind farms, which will generate enough power to supply 4 million homes.