In a written statement the company, along with project partners Dong Energy and E.ON, said work wind farm is progressing well and will help reduce 925,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
“On-site work is progressing in the Thames Estuary, where 22 of the planned 177 monopile foundations (175 wind turbines and two offshore substations) have been installed to date,” the partners said in a statement.
On a related note, two Emirati professionals – Naser Al Yammahi, Project Engineer, and Mohamed Al Khawaja, Senior Electrical Engineer - have joined the London Array project team.
Frank Wouters, Director of Masdar Power, said: "The progress of work at London Array marks our commitment to expediting the deployment of utility-scale renewable energy production around the world. The offshore wind farm additionally reflects the community’s swift adoption of renewable and clean energy technologies.
“The two recently joined Emirati engineers bring special expertise to the London Array project team and we believe they will significantly contribute to the overall success of the initiative. But more importantly, London Array will effectively showcase the development, commercialisation and adoption of renewable energy and clean technology.”
Located 20 kilometres from the Kent and Essex coasts, the wind farm will cover an area of 100 square kilometres in Phase I on the Thames Estuary, and will be connected by undersea cables to a new onshore substation currently being built at Cleve Hill on the North Kent coast.
The London Array is set to contribute to the expanding wind energy sector of the UK, which installed 653 MW in fresh capacity to account for more than half of the global offshore wind energy market in 2010.
Offshore represents 26 percent of the UK’s total wind capacity of which 59 percent was added in 2010, according to estimates by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA).
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