Scroby Sands Windfarm - This shows the windfarm still under construction. There are 30 turbines standing 60 metres above sea level and piled up to 30 metres into the sea bed. Aerial images from Mike Page's new book; Norfolk Coast From The Air as featured in the EDP supplement, SkyCamera, May 2006. Varoius images of the coastline, housing and erosion from the air. All pictures by Mike Page
Drive to attract wind farm business to Great Yarmouth
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
5:21 PM
THE drive to attract offshore wind related business to Great Yarmouth’s economy is set to take another step forward at the end of next month.
Staff from Yarmouth Borough Council and Waveney District Council will be exhibiting at the UK’s biggest renewable energy event- RenewableUK Offshore Wind 2011 in Liverpool on June 29 and 30.
The aim is to exploit Yarmouth’s location close to major wind farm developments, including Scroby Sands and the skills of the 12,000 local people employed in the marine energy sector.
Exhibiting at RenewableUK’s Annual Conference last year led to over 60 companies seeking further details from the council about business opportunities in the local area.
With the 60MW Scroby Sands wind farm having been constructed as part of Round 1, Round 3 of the Crown Estate’s programme to develop additional UK offshore wind capacity in the form of the 7200MW East Anglia Array offers major opportunities for businesses in the Great Yarmouth area.
Yarmouth Port owner EastPort UK is currently being use by MT Hojgaard as a base for the installation of foundations on the Lincs Offshore Wind Farm and by A2Sea as a reloading base for installation of wind turbines on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind farm.
The joint council exhibition stand will emphasise a number of compelling reasons why businesses should choose the local area for their offshore wind operations.
This Tuesday and Thursday, a council team will promote the town at the Marine East display at Seawork International.
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4 comments
I see you approve of my irony. I fully support the town’s initiative, and delegations. Having the business community engaged is an absolute necessity, and hope that the delegation has had the sense to involve the business community especially those specializing in the renewable energy markets. I would very much like to see what our delegation plans to present, maybe the local free press could publish the presentation. At the very least and in the interest of full disclosure I will expect a report on the progress of the council’s golf handicap.
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Paul Morley
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Well Paul let us hope your statement bears fruit, though from past history any delegation associated or born out of our town hall is normally unproductive, normally a chance to have a jolly good time at Ratepayers expense. Now if the delegation was just a mixture of Port and Town businessmen, we could look forward to positive results. Let councillors organise services and our businessmen bring in the jobs.
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John L Cooper
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Maybe you could expand upon “The joint council exhibition stand will emphasise a number of compelling reasons why businesses should choose the local area for their offshore wind operations” I would especially like to know what the “compelling reasons” are exactly?
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Paul Morley
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Excellent lets hope our delegation is able to put the towns interests first and expand the overall renewable energy sector within our area.
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Paul Morley
Wednesday, June 8, 2011