Britain intends to create the largest offshore wind farm in the world

ArabiaWeather.com- Britain intends to establish the largest offshore wind farm under the name "Hornsey" by 2020. It is expected that this station will provide electric power to more than one million homes and will provide 2,300 job opportunities. 2,000 opportunities during the construction phase, and another 300 during the operation phase.

The project extends over an area of 407 square kilometers. It will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world, located 120 kilometers off the north-east coast of East Yorkshire.

Britain has so far spent about $6.7 billion on the project, while this amount is expected to double by 2020, the year specified for the operation of the project, which will generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity using German "Siemens" air turbines, with a capacity of 7 megawatts and a height of 190 meters.