Developers behind plans for a giant windfarm in the North Sea have been forced to find a new base for the onshore elements of the plan.
The Triton Knoll windfarm project, which will provide power for between 550,000 and 800,000 homes, had originally picked a site near Skegness for the project, until plans for a leisure facility were submitted for their preferred location.
Now RWE Innogy have been forced to pick a second choice between Orby and Addlethorpe, near Skegness Stadium, for the onshore infrastructure.
It is the second blow in as many weeks for the £3.6billion project, coming after the developers announced they were scaling back plans for the scale of the windfarm.
“We always take the views of key consultees on board and are keen to work together with local communities,” said project manager Jacob Hain.
“We went back to review the shortlisted zones and re-assess them. We have assessed the compatibility of the intermediate electrical compound with plans for “The Vision for Skegness” and concluded that co-locating with these developments would be highly complicated.”
Council chiefs had said they would not back the proposed infrastructure site before as it clashed with their Vision for Skegness plans, leaving the developers looking for other options.
Earlier this month RWE Innogy confirmed they were scaling back the proposed size of the Triton Knoll development by 40$, cutting power form 1.2GW to between 600MW and 900MW, and cutting the size of the onshore infrastructure by half.
