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Harwich - Felixstowe Docks 27 September 2009
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Harwich 27 November 2009
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A barge full of turbine
components for Gunfleet Sands anchors on the Felixstowe side of the
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Shotley towards Harwich 15 November
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Looking towards
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Harwich 12 December 2010
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The storage area at
Parkeston (Harwich in Essex) is full with turbine blades,
uprights and hubs. This time last year they were for the
completion of Gunfleet I & II, now with its 48 turbines
producing 172MW. These are bound for the Greater Gabbard wind
farm off Orford in Suffolk. It will have 140 turbines generating
504MW. An extension, Galloper, will add another 504MW of
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Close-ups of the
kit, brought in from Belgium and then loaded onto the jack-up
rigs, such as Leviathan, and with components for one turbine,
move to the monopod base already installed and complete the
turbine. |
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There is plenty of work in
the North Sea to keep this facility busy for many years, with Greater
Gabbard and then Galloper, to be dwarfed by East Anglia ONE, the first
phase of a super-massive 7,200MW offshore wind farm. In the more
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Suffolk Essex Harwich Shotley
Felixstowe Docks River Stour shipping containers wind farm offshore Gunfleet Sands jack up rig wind
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