Moray East is a highly competitive offshore wind project...

Millions of tonnes

of CO₂ can be saved over the lifetime of our offshore wind farm. Offshore wind farms have the advantage of accessing higher wind speeds and mitigating the main concern of wind turbines. The Moray East wind farm will join one of very few, large scale wind farms in Scotland, and be able to power approximately one million homes. This will save a large amount of CO₂ from entering the atmosphere every year when compared to gas fired power plants. 

Helping to supply

Uk homes with renewable energy

The electrical power generated by the wind turbines will be collected offshore via buried inter-array cables to three offshore substations where the electricity is stepped up in voltage and exported onshore via three export cables. The onshore cables entering the substation of New Deer will further regulate the voltage to transmission level and to transmit the 950MW of electricity onto the National Grid network. The national grid is a transmission system for electricity, where it gathers electricity from a power station to homes and businesses in the UK.

Key Facts

Generating power at £57.50/MWhr – or 5.75p/kWhr...

Moray East is being developed to provide a secure and reliable source of energy without creating gasses associated with global warming, and without producing nuclear waste.

• Consent for construction of up to 1,116MW granted in 2016
• CfD for 950MW awarded in 2017
• Total windfarm Area – 295km2
• Maximum turbine blade-tip height – 204m (669 feet)
• Minimum distance from shore – 22km (13.5 miles)
• 100 turbines  (Vestas  V164 – 9.5MW)
• 3 offshore substation platforms

For the purposes of electricity trading, the 950MW facility is divided into three Balancing Mechanism units (BMUs) – each associated with an offshore substation platform.

The dates for expected generation for each are:

Circuit / BMU 2 – Early June

Circuit / BMU 3 – Mid July

Circuit / BMU 1 – End August

• 40%

  Of Scotland's electricity will be provided

• 1.7

  Million tonnes of CO2 emissions saved every year

• 1.43

  Million homes throughout the UK could be powered

• 500

  Kilometers of cabling will be installed across the site