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

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: 2) by EventH0rizon on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:46PM (1 child)

    by EventH0rizon (936) on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:46PM (#946529) Journal

    Total cost of our system (ground mounted panels, batteries, etc) was around $AU 47k. So your $30k ($US ?) sounds about right.

    One factor to consider in deciding whether or not the ROI happens soon enough is the stability of the cost of grid-connected power.

    In our part of the world this has been rising steadily, year on year. Each years rise brings the ROI horizon that much closer to us closer to us.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @09:38PM (#946537)

    Can you really put a price on independence from the grid though? I expect more power outages like we see in california going forward. Plus they are connecting everyone's meters to wifi which is bound to end in tears.