Scroby Sands wind farm
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The Scroby Sands wind farm is a wind farm located in the North Sea, 2.5 km off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, and erected in 2003-4.
The farm was commissioned by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a division of one of the UK's major electricity producing companies, and is expected to produce an average 60 MegaWatts of power.
The farm has 30 wind turbines, each with three 40 metre blades rotating around a centre-point some 60 metres above the mean sea level on hollow 4.5 metre diameter steel masts, in from 13 - 20 metres depth of water. The masts are piled up to 30 metres into the sea bed, to provide stability on a substrate of shifting sands.
The wind turbines were designed and manufactured by a Dutch firm, Vestas.