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Hybrid energy consent in East Irish Sea
11 Sep 2008
Low-carbon energy company Eclipse Energy UK has been granted government consent to enlarge its previously consented Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development.
The offshore wind farm and gas turbines will be in close proximity.
This completes the series of principal permissions necessary to construct the world’s first co-development of offshore gas and wind energy, in the East Irish Sea.
The consent permits Ormonde Energy
Limited to build a 150MW wind farm comprising 30 turbines, which will be sited
9.5 km from Walney Island. This consent replaces the previous one granted
in February 2007.
When constructed, Ormonde will have the ability to provide up to 150MW of electricity from its dedicated offshore wind farm of 30 5MW turbines and during periods of light wind the three gas turbines fuelled from two adjacent natural gas fields will generate a total of 90MW of electricty.
Read the full story in the October issue of Maritime Journal.
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