Project Spotlight
Codling wind Park
Codling Wind Park represents one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in Ireland this decade and is set to become one of Ireland’s largest offshore wind farm, being developed in the Irish Sea.
Offshore wind captures fast wind speeds which produces clean, green energy and the technology provides jobs and investment. We need a mix of onshore and offshore wind to reach net zero.
The UK is one of the world’s largest markets for offshore wind with more than 10 GW of cumulative installed capacity. There’s another 5 GW in construction and planes for another 11 GW.
Offshore wind turbines work in the same way as onshore wind ones do – using large blades, powered by the wind to rotate and drive the generator to produce electricity.
Offshore wind farms benefit from higher and more consistent wind speeds and are usually much larger than an onshore wind farm because there is more space, which means they can produce more energy.
In 2020 offshore wind accounted for 13% of total electricity generation in the UK.*
*https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables
EDF Renewables has two operational offshore wind farms in England; Teesside and Blyth.
We are busy building the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in the Firth of Forth in Scotland and we are developing the Codling wind park in Ireland which could provide up to 1 GW of low carbon electricity.
Project Spotlight
Codling Wind Park represents one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in Ireland this decade and is set to become one of Ireland’s largest offshore wind farm, being developed in the Irish Sea.
Project Spotlight
The Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm will be located 15.5km off the Fife coast. EDF Renewables UK acquired the project in May 2018 as part of a competitive bidding process.