It was only a few weeks ago that the UK government confirmed a major watering-down of several green and net-zero policies. And while that certainly wasn’t great news for the planet, the country has made major leaps and bounds in renewable energy this year. A few weeks ago we hit our trillionth kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity powering British homes and now we’ve reached another milestone on the sustainable energy front.
Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm that sits just off the coast of Yorkshire, started producing power last weekend. The first out of 277 planned turbines creaked into action, powering British homes and businesses across the country.
Built by SSE Renewables, the £9 billion Dogger Bank development will apparently set to produce 3.6 gigawatts of power when it is completed in 2026 – enough electricity to power six million homes per year. According to the developers, each rotation of the 107-metre-long blades could produce enough energy to power an average British home for two days.
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