LONDON: The world's largest wind farm may well be set up off the north Devon coast in Britain. The project, still in conception stage, could generate 1,500 megawatts of renewable power and offer jobs to hundreds of people in the area.
Farm Energy2, a Devon-based company, which is behind the project said Thursday the project will involve an outlay of 3 billion pounds and at least 350 turbines will be installed at the site, which is about 14 miles off Ilfracombe. It said the project can provide enough green power to more than one million homes.
The company had conceived the London Array project in the Thames Estuary, which is now the world's largest offshore wind scheme. This has the approval of the department of trade and industry and the department for the environment, food and rural affairs.
Peter Crone, director of Farm Energy2, said the proposed wind farm would avoid the release of 2.3 million tons of carbon dioxide every year, which is equivalent to over 5 per cent of the South West's greenhouse gas emissions.
The company said the power from the wind farm, called Atlantic Array, would be transmitted to shore using submarine cables and on to the National Grid substation at Alverdiscott using underground. It will be able to meet 53 per cent of the South West's domestic energy every year.
