Eclipse Energy UK plc has announced that it has been granted consent to enlarge its previously consented Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development by the UK Government.
This completes the series of principal permissions necessary to
construct the world's first co-development of offshore gas and wind
energy, in the East Irish Sea. The consent permits Ormonde Energy
Limited to build a 150MW wind farm comprising of 30 turbines, which
will be sited 9.5 km from Walney Island.? This consent replaces the
previous one granted in February 2007. When constructed Ormonde will
have the ability to provide up to 150MW of electricity from its
dedicated offshore wind farm of 30 5MW turbines and during periods of
light wind the three gas turbines fuelled from two adjacent natural gas
fields will generate a total of 90MW of electricity. The project
anticipates first energy in 2011.
