BLOOMBERG: Shell, E.ON Plan World’s Largest Wind Farm in U.K. (Update4): “The U.K., the windiest country in Europe, wants 10 percent of its power to come from renewable sources by 2010…”: 7 June 2005
June 7 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch/Shell Group, E.ON AG and partners sought U.K. permission for the world’s largest wind park, a 1.5 billion-pound ($2.75 billion) project big enough to serve one-fourth of London, as Prime Minister Tony Blair seeks to cut emissions linked to global warming.
The London Array project would have 270 turbines about 60 miles downstream from central London, in an estuary where the River Thames flows into the North Sea. The windmills 12 miles offshore, with a total of 1,000 megawatts of capacity, may be ready in 2011, the companies said in an e-mailed statement today.