24-Mar-2021 | Market Research Store
A new productionunit in the North-East region of Yorkshire has planned toassemble the world’s longest wind turbine blades. GE Renewable Energy has elected its subsidiary,LM Wind Power,fortransforming and managing the plant in Teesside.The whole unit will focus on the manufacturing of the world’s longest turbine blades measuring 107 Meters longand animperativefeature of GE’s Haliade-X is that it will be the strongest offshore wind turbine.
The turbineswill be installed in Dogger Bank’s offshore wind farm, which is located on the east coast of Yorkshire between 125–290 Kilometers. The turbines to be installed in a three-phase structure in the farm will provide an overall combined generation capacity of 3.6GW, enough tosupply powerto nearly 6 million UK homes. The estimated time to set the turbine in working condition is around 5 Years.
The company has anticipated starting its productionof the new plant in 2023 and would generate employment by creatingnearly 750 direct jobs under the renewable energy sector and approximately 1,500 indirect employment opportunities. This project will also support the government in accomplishing itsgoalto generate 40 GW of offshore wind power by the end ofthe decade. In this process of accomplishing the target, Teesside in the recent past has been appointed as one of the UK’s new freeports. Theproduction unit of blades will be located at Teesworks, which is also said to be an ideal place to extract the vast wind potential of the giganticoffshore of the North Sea.
As per the statement given by the CEO of Renewable UK, Mr. Hugh McNeal, the steelworks factory on Teeside will be refurbished into a high-tech green energy powerhouse with the help of an upcoming gigantic blade turbine. This rigorous initiative willoffer multiple employment opportunities in the UK supply chain.