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World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the lots-of-spinning-blades dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting bigger.

2019 saw the world’s biggest (at the time) offshore wind farm come online, as well as construction of the biggest offshore wind farm in the US off the coast of Atlantic City.

But a new figure blows all of these out of the water. Last week, British renewable energy developer SSE announced construction of Dogger Bank Wind Farm off the eastern coast of England in the North Sea.

With a capacity of 3.6 gigawatts (GW), Dogger Bank will be three times bigger than the world’s biggest existing wind farm, the nearby 1.2 GW Hornsea One.

Located near a seaside town called Ulrome, which is 195 miles north of London, Dogger Bank will have three separate sites—Creyke Beck A, Creyke Beck B, and Teesside A—each with a 1.2 GW capacity, and construction is slated to take two years.

The project is a collaboration between SSE and Equinor, a Norwegian energy company.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:46PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @06:46PM (#946472)

    Just so that I can make sure I have the right voice in my head when I read this, do you Brits use the hard or soft "g" sound when you say gigawatts?

    Same thing for the GIF file format?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:30PM (#946496)

    Just so that I can make sure I have the right voice in my head when I read this, do you Brits use the hard or soft "g" sound when you say gigawatts? Same thing for the GIF file format?

    Brit here. "gigawatts, GIF" - all 3 are a hard "g". Other Brits may choose to differ.

  • (Score: 2) by rleigh on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:33PM (1 child)

    by rleigh (4887) on Tuesday January 21 2020, @07:33PM (#946499) Homepage

    "Giga" has always had a hard "G" hasn't it? The only instance of hearing it pronounced with a soft "G" in my life was in "Back To The Future", and I always assumed that this was because the actor had no clue how to pronounce SI prefixes. Or as a Brit am I simply only used to it in that form?

    I've always pronounced GIF with a hard "G", but heard it was supposed to be "JIF". Never understood why you would ever do that, since "graphic" has a hard "G" as well. Unless the US started pronouncing it as "giraffic" while I wasn't paying attention!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @09:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @09:31AM (#946769)

      The only instance of hearing it pronounced with a soft "G" in my life was in "Back To The Future", and I always assumed that this was because the actor had no clue how to pronounce SI prefixes.

      You're probably right, but now when I watch the movie, I just "assume" that the character is so eccentric, that he pronounces it that way. It helps the suspension of disbelief.