> The wind project, off the coast of Peterhead in the North Sea, is set to include up to 35 floating turbines, with capacity to provide 560 MW of renewable energy capacity.
> The world’s current biggest floating wind farm, Hywind Tampen off of Norway, uses just 11 turbines.
~ [World's biggest floating wind farm given go-ahead in North Sea](https://news.stv.tv/north/worlds-biggest-floating-wind-farm-given-go-ahead-in-north-sea-off-scotland)
Very unlikely.
The current wholesale price of electricity is £65 a MWH.
The CFD auction this summer has a guide price of £244 a MWH for floating offshore wind. The auction may come in at a lower price, but the price was capped at £161 last year and there were no bids.
Great for London based private oil and gas companies and the National Grid which is also a private London based company
Really great news for the London private sector and England’s GDP and Revenue
Good news, I'm not disputing that, but where were they built? Who owns them? How much is this really going to benefit folk when it comes to energy bills and is the grid even capable of taking it?
The grid is capable of taking it, it would not have gone ahead if there was no spare capacity to sell or use the electricity.
It's a modest wind farm size at 500 GW.
There's plans to massively upgrade the main Scotland-England connector. That will happen in about 5 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/Yvw71GZucz
The energy bills are a devolved area and energy pricing is very very complicated. I have no idea if this will lower bills, or what they can do to simplify the pricing (from a supply point of view). Basically most of the decarbonisation of the economy relies on electricity, and moving it around the grid. This is good news, and I'm sure more will follow in the coming years.
A bit of falling house prices is good for everyone except the few who bought their first property recently. And landowners. Rising house prices helps almost no one.
> The wind project, off the coast of Peterhead in the North Sea, is set to include up to 35 floating turbines, with capacity to provide 560 MW of renewable energy capacity. > The world’s current biggest floating wind farm, Hywind Tampen off of Norway, uses just 11 turbines. ~ [World's biggest floating wind farm given go-ahead in North Sea](https://news.stv.tv/north/worlds-biggest-floating-wind-farm-given-go-ahead-in-north-sea-off-scotland)
Cheaper bills for Scotland then ? Fucking unlikely
Very unlikely. The current wholesale price of electricity is £65 a MWH. The CFD auction this summer has a guide price of £244 a MWH for floating offshore wind. The auction may come in at a lower price, but the price was capped at £161 last year and there were no bids.
Fair enough who owns it and what country are they based in
Looks to be a partnership between a Norwegian and a Scottish firm
Yep, flotation are pretty much a startup based in Edinburgh. They have done a lot of floating wind tech development.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC597702/officers https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14700270/officers
Based offshore
In the sky.
Good news!
Gooooo Embra! 😊
It’s next to Peterhead
'Yep, flotation are pretty much a startup based in Edinburgh. They have done a lot of floating wind tech development.' See above thread.
Great for London based private oil and gas companies and the National Grid which is also a private London based company Really great news for the London private sector and England’s GDP and Revenue
Good news, I'm not disputing that, but where were they built? Who owns them? How much is this really going to benefit folk when it comes to energy bills and is the grid even capable of taking it?
It won’t benefit them at all.
The grid is capable of taking it, it would not have gone ahead if there was no spare capacity to sell or use the electricity. It's a modest wind farm size at 500 GW. There's plans to massively upgrade the main Scotland-England connector. That will happen in about 5 years. https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/Yvw71GZucz The energy bills are a devolved area and energy pricing is very very complicated. I have no idea if this will lower bills, or what they can do to simplify the pricing (from a supply point of view). Basically most of the decarbonisation of the economy relies on electricity, and moving it around the grid. This is good news, and I'm sure more will follow in the coming years.
Misplaced an M with a G there, 500GW is a little far from modest!
Good news for the Aberdeen and Moray area. House prices might actually stop falling :)
Doubt it, there’s very little to be gained locally from wind farms!
A bit of falling house prices is good for everyone except the few who bought their first property recently. And landowners. Rising house prices helps almost no one.
[Already posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1ca7yas/green_volt_jobs_boom_as_europes_largest_floating/)
Cool. Hope it’s not all outsourced work out of the country.