Blyth Offshore was the United Kingdom’s first commercial-scale offshore wind installation, a small demonstration project sited off Blyth in Northumberland. Commissioned around 2000 as a pilot to prove offshore wind technology at scale in UK waters, the project comprised two grid-connected turbine...
Decommissioning of the Blyth Offshore Wind Farm began in April 2019, when Fugro deployed its Excalibur jack-up barge off Blyth on the Northumberland coast to start removing the two 95 m turbines and their monopile foundation structures and to recover the associated export cable for client E.ON Climate & Renewables.
By 24 April 2019, E.ON had decommissioned the 4 MW Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, comprising two 2 MW turbines off Blyth, Northumberland, removing the UK’s first offshore wind turbines from service; one turbine was earmarked for recycling as spare parts and the other for reuse by the Port of Blyth for training purposes.
The original 4MW Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, consisting of two 2MW Vestas V66 turbines located about 0.5 miles off Blyth, Northumberland, entered commercial operation in December 2000 as the UK’s first offshore wind farm. Developed by E.ON UK Renewables in consortium with Shell Renewables, Nuon UK and AMEC Wind, the pilot project was commissioned that month and at the time hosted the most powerful offshore turbines installed worldwide.
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By the time the Blyth Offshore pilot wind farm was commissioned in December 2000, it was being developed and operated under a consortium joint-venture structure including E.ON, Shell Renewables, NUON (Nuon UK) and Border Wind/AMEC Wind, with E.ON responsible for operating the two-turbine, 4 MW project off Blyth, Northumberland.
Blyth Offshore was the UK's first offshore wind farm — a pilot project of two Vestas V66 turbines installed 1 km off the Northumberland coast. The seabed lease was awarded by The Crown Estate to the Blyth Offshore Wind Limited consortium (Border Wind, PowerGen Renewables, Nuon UK and Shell Renewables) ahead of commissioning in December 2000. Specific lease execution date is not in the public record; the year is recorded as 2000.
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