Teesside wind farm . . .

bear66

bear66

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. . . was awarded a 22 year lease in 2004, after which it would have to be decommissioned. Does that mean it gets pulled down in 6 years or was the lease date started when the wind farm was commissioned (2014)?
 
bear66 said:
. . . was awarded a 22 year lease in 2004, after which it would have to be decommissioned. Does that mean it gets pulled down in 6 years or was the lease date started when the wind farm was commissioned (2014)?
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Lease probably starts when it's completed, provided it was completed on time. If it's still in good condition then it's unlikely they will rip it down, the lease will just get extended. It was probably over engineered, like most things in construction.
 
Over engineered = factor of safety.

Don’t know about offshore but for onshore wind farms the planning permission period (say 25 years) only starts upon full certified completion of the wind farm.
 
One of my best mates works installing these offshore wind farms and apparently there’s only 20 years in them anyway. The worry is what to do with all the concrete pylons they all stand on.
 
RandySavage said:
Is it cost effective with them only lasting 20 years though? We should be looking at solar farms.
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I dunno to be honest but they cant cost that much to make, or use up that much energy making them, plus 20 years of free power isnt a bad deal.

I think there is a massive off shore turbine field going up on Dogger Bank, 120 miles off shore, with a cable into a sub station at Redcar, so they are here to stay
 
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Picture of rig from Marske beach. Will be there for a month drilling bore holes. The cable will eventually be hooked up to the grid at Lazenby


I remember a cable laying ship off the coast at Marske in the 60s. It laid the telphone cable over to Norway .
 
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