Just before Christmas, the planning application for the huge 1.2GW (gigawatt), Round Three East Anglia development off the coast of Anglia was submitted.
Joint venture East Anglia Offshore Wind (EAOW), which is backed by Swedish utility Vattenfall and Iberdrola-owned ScottishPower, submitted the plans on December 18, paving the way for what would be the world’s biggest offshore windfarm.
Vattenfall is the 75% partner in the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre project planned for installation north of Aberdeen and which US tycoon Donald Trump is hell bent on destroying, despite the fact that it predates his golf project at Balmedie.
The EOWDC is seen as strategically crucial to establishing the reliability of new generation large turbines of the kind required for UK Round Three projects.