Onshore milestones met on Moray East Offshore Wind Farm project

COMPLETION of the Moray East offshore windfarm has taken a step forward with work to install the onshore cable ending.

The works, which started in October 2018 saw more than 300,000 meters of high voltage cable laid across the 34.5km route which starts near Banff.

It will take the power generated offshore from the three 220kV subsea cables, and transmits it to the new onshore substation at New Deer, where it connects into the grid.

Mark Pilling, Siemens Energy UK&I head of Transmission Solutions, said: “The onshore cable is a vital part of the windfarm, bringing the energy generated offshore into the onshore substation and into people’s homes.

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“We are delighted this part of the project is completed and we are a step closer to bringing the low cost, low carbon power to homes and businesses across Scotland.”

The windfarm, 22 km off the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland, will have an installed generation capacity of 950MW after its completion. It will be capable of providing low cost, low carbon power to the equivalent of one million Scottish homes, 40% of the country, making a significant contribution to meeting Net Zero ambitions.

Currently around 245 people are working on site, with all work to due to be finalised onshore in the first half of 2021.