It will place 270 wind turbines on offshore platforms where the Thames meets the North Sea, 100 kilometers, or 60 miles, from London. It would generate about 1,000 megawatts and supply enough power to the national grid for more than 750,000 homes, helping meet Prime Minister Tony Blair's target of generating 10 percent of British electricity from renewable sources by 2010.
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Shell To Supply GB's Quarter Energy Demand
It will place 270 wind turbines on offshore platforms where the Thames meets the North Sea
The joint venture led by Royal Dutch/Shell Group is going to build a 1.5 billion electricity-generating wind farm with the potential to meet a quarter of the British capital's energy needs.
The $2.74 billion London Array project is to be divided equally among Shell Energy, E.ON U.K. Renewables and the joint venture Core.
It will place 270 wind turbines on offshore platforms where the Thames meets the North Sea, 100 kilometers, or 60 miles, from London. It would generate about 1,000 megawatts and supply enough power to the national grid for more than 750,000 homes, helping meet Prime Minister Tony Blair's target of generating 10 percent of British electricity from renewable sources by 2010.
Shell said the wind farm could be built by 2011 if the government granted permission before 2007. The plant would make unnecessary up to 1.9 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
It will place 270 wind turbines on offshore platforms where the Thames meets the North Sea, 100 kilometers, or 60 miles, from London. It would generate about 1,000 megawatts and supply enough power to the national grid for more than 750,000 homes, helping meet Prime Minister Tony Blair's target of generating 10 percent of British electricity from renewable sources by 2010.
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