News

Fri, 28 Jan 2011

Winds of Change

The UK’s first major offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant is to be built in Hull after Siemens, the German industrial conglomerate, announced that the city was the preferred site for a proposed factory.

Siemens and Associated British Ports, which operates the port, signed a memorandum of understanding to build the plant at Alexandra Dock. Under the plan, ABP would build a £100m deepwater berth at the port capable of handling the new generation of large offshore wind turbines. It would be one of the biggest single investments ABP has made in Britain. Siemens also wants to build a new £80m wind turbine plant on the site.

The Hull plant would be the first to make 6MW turbines, double the capacity of today’s biggest and, at around 150m tall, higher than all but nine buildings in the UK. Green Port Hull at Alexandra Dock is an established port complex with excellent access from the road and an adjacent deep water berth.

This places Hull & Humber at the forefront of windpower technology and is an exciting deveopment for all those working in the shipping and energy sectors in the region.

As Myton Law already have a strong association with the renewables sector we will be sending out regular updates regarding the progress of the works and other relevant developments to all of our clients and contacts who have interests in this area. To be sure you receive them please email: scott.yates@mytonlaw.co.uk