Gunfleet Seascape
by Richard Reeve
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Gunfleet Seascape
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Richard Reeve
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Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm is a 173 MegaWatt wind farm 7km off the Clacton-on-Sea coast in the Northern Thames Estuary, commissioned on 15 June 2010. It has 48 Siemens Wind Power wind turbines of 3.6 MW capacity each. Construction began in March 2008 and the first two turbines started generating electricity in August 2009. As of January 2010, 45 turbines are in place with 20 supplying electricity to the grid. On average, the complete wind farm is expected to supply enough power for approximately 120,000 homes.
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