ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) has selected Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) as a preferred supplier of offshore wind turbines for its £6.5bn 3.1GW East Anglia Hub program.
SPR and SGRE will work together ahead of the next Contracts for Difference auction to optimise the projects, with the aim of then signing final turbine supply and installation agreements.
More than 200 next generation turbines are planned for SPR’s East Anglia One North, Two, and Three projects in the southern North Sea – collectively known as the East Anglia Hub.
The East Anglia Hub could deliver more than 7.5% of the UK’s 40GW target for offshore wind generation by 2030 as set out in the Government’s Ten Point Plan.