Narec - Narec's plans to develop an offshore wind farm site in the North Sea, comprising 20 pre-consented “pods”, at which tenants may deploy their prototype or demonstration turbines and foundations.

Offshore Wind Demonstration

Narec was awarded a grant by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in February 2010 to put the infrastructure in place for a grid connected offshore demonstration platform, with the capacity to accommodate up to 100MW of offshore wind power.

The proposed demonstration facility for pre commercial prototype offshore wind turbines will be unique in global R&D terms, enabling manufacturers and wind farm developers to learn new approaches across the supply chain for the development, deployment and O&M
of new turbine technologies.

The Offshore Anemometry Hub will be installed 6km offshore of Blyth, Northumberland in Spring/Summer 2012.  Close to the location of the proposed nearest shore array of the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator Project, it will provide wind resource and environmental data to validate turbine demonstrations on the proposed site.

Download our Offshore Wind Demonstration insert here.

If you are part of the supply chain and wish to put forward a new technology for the consideration of turbine demonstrators, please email: demosupplychain@narec.co.uk to receive your free supply chain information pack.

See Also:

• Offshore Anemometry Hub

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