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ScottishPower Renewables, Siemens announce biggest ever turbine deal

Xinhua, June 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The largest ever turbine deal in Britain's wind energy sector was announced Friday by ScottishPower Renewables and Siemens.

The contract for 102 wind turbines for an offshore wind farm off the coast of East Anglia in the North Sea is worth more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

It forms part of a clean energy project costing 3 billion U.S. dollars, with the new wind farm capable of meeting the power needs of 500,000 homes at a lower cost.

Welcoming the deal, the British government's new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd said: "In addition to supporting thousands of UK jobs, this project shows we are driving down the costs of offshore wind."

Siemens will build the 7-megawatt turbines, creating work for around 1,500 people in Hull, half of the workforce to be recruited for the windfarm project.

ScottishPower Renewables said Friday more than half of the East Anglia ONE windfarm project components and services will be made and sourced in Britain.

Construction of the new wind farm is to start in 2017, with the first turbines installed by 2019 and the project fully operational during 2020. Endit