Scroby Sands wind farm

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name = Scroby Sands wind farm

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official_name = Scroby Sands wind farm
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country =England
state = Norfolk
region = East of England
district = Great Yarmouth (borough)
municipality =Great Yarmouth
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visitation = North DriveGreat YarmouthNorfolkNR30 1ED
visitation_date = open daily from 26 May until the end of October
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website = http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/scrobysands.aspx
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The Scroby Sands wind farm is a wind farm located in the North Sea, convert|2.5|km|mi|1 off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, and erected in 2003-4.

The farm was commissioned by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of one of the UK's major electricity producing companies (now called E.ON UK), and is expected to produce up to a maximum of 60 megawatts of power, enough for 41,000 homes

The farm has 30 wind turbines, each with three 40 metre blades rotating around a centre-point some convert|60|m|ft above the mean sea level on hollow convert|4.5|m|ft|1 diameter steel masts, in from convert|13|m|ft|abbr=on to convert|20|m|ft|abbr=on depth of water. The masts are piled up to convert|30|m|ft into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands.

The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Danish firm, Vestas. Each turbine has a capacity of 2 megawatts.

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ee also

*Wind power in the United Kingdom
*Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
* List of Offshore Wind Farms

External links

* [http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file34791.pdf Capital Grant Scheme for Offshore Wind Annual Report – January 2005 – December 2005] from the Department of Trade and Industry. The main finding being that - apparently owning to a series of bearing failures, and four generator failures - production in the year was less to 30% of the farm's capacity (albeit this represents production of 90% of the farm's "forecast" annual output.
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4786647.stm Performance report into wind farm] from the BBC, based on the above report.
* [http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/scrobysands.aspx E.ON UK - Scroby Sands] E.ON's page about Scroby Sands.