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Ramboll Group Projects Thanet offshore wind farm. Thanet will not keep the "world's biggest" accolade for long though. Guests were already speculating about the next major offshore launch they might be invited to. Just up the coast is the Greater Gabbard offshore project with its turbines, which will be followed by the even bigger London Array scheme in the Thames Estuary. When completed, this could generate MW. Renewables UK, the industry lobby group, declared that the Thanet development meant that renewable energy had now become "absolutely mainstream" in the UK.
The turbines themselves are metres high and require technicians to go through rigorous training before they can set foot on them. When Vattenfall started up the turbines in , the majority of the workforce was made up of contractors from abroad.
But over the past 10 years they have steadily grown a team of local turbine technicians, operations staff, and warehouse operatives at the Ramsgate headquarters. The company is trying to keep its supply chain as local as possible by working with local organisations rather than importing parts from other countries.
Speaking to KentOnline last year, Melanie Rogers, the communications officer at Vattenfall Ramsgate, said it was important to the company to train new staff from the local area. She said: "When wind farms first arrived in the UK we didn't have experienced staff to run them, so they sent a lot of Danish staff to get it up and running.
The energy company hoped to boost jobs even further in , by proposing an additional wind farm in Thanet. Plans included 34 turbines sat 8km from the shore, and with the developments in technology would be capable of generating more power than the existing But Business secretary Alok Sharma concluded that Vattenfall's prosposal would not be allowed to proceed.
The application stated that the expansion would include an increase of 75 people in their Kent workforce. Among the reasons given for refusal were a potentially-negative affect on the development of future ports and maritime navigation risk.
There was also concern the extension cause problems for ships travelling along the coastal region. Now the energy company has set its sights on a new project - a solar farm in Faversham. This is expected to increase the current production by 2GW. The guidelines for Round 1 were published in On receipt of several applications, 18 offshore wind farm projects were given permission to proceed in April This came to be known as the Round 1 of the UK offshore wind development.
To date, four projects have been completed. Of the remaining projects, seven have received permission from the planning authorities and the rest are awaiting consent.
The mounting pressure on the country to reduce carbon emissions led to the development of Round 2 in December The department of Trade and Industry DTI set new strategic rules for the wind industry and approved 15 projects with a combined capacity of 7.
This formed the Round 2 of the offshore wind development. It is estimated that if the UK develops wind farms in one-third of its shallow waters, it can produce 40GW of power. A similar kind of development in deep waters will fetch a capacity of 80GW. It is being developed….
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