Qualla: Humber Gateway Wind Farm https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Humber Gateway Wind Farm https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm Humber Gateway Wind Farm: Introduction https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm/ Stand at Spurn Point on a clear day and look east. Eight kilometres out across the water, in fifteen metres of depth, seventy-three white turbines turn against the horizon. From shore they look like toothpicks. Stand at the base of one of them and they are 100 metres tall, with rotor blades that sweep a circle wider than a football pitch. Together they produce 219 megawatts of electricity. The cables run back across the seabed, come ashore at Easington, and travel underground for thirty kilometres to a substation at Salt End, near Hull. Britain has built a lot of offshore wind in the last decade. Humber Gateway is one of the older grown-up turbines in the fleet.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/1/humber-gateway-wind-farm-wp/u181-humber-gateway-wind-farm-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Humber Gateway Wind Farm: A Decade of Planning https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm/ It started in 2003, when E.ON UK's renewables subsidiary submitted a bid to the Crown Estate to develop a wind farm in the so-called 'Greater Wash Strategic Area'. A formal planning application followed in 2008, for a 300 megawatt £700 million project. Planning permission came in...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/1/humber-gateway-wind-farm-wp/u181-humber-gateway-wind-farm-a-decade-of-planning.mp3 0:06 2 full Humber Gateway Wind Farm: Building at Sea https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm/ The first turbine foundation was driven into the sea bed in September 2013. Two 600-tonne offshore substations were delivered to the Port of Sunderland in December 2013 for installation. By January 2014 the submarine export cables connecting the offshore transformer back to land ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/8/1/humber-gateway-wind-farm-wp/u181-humber-gateway-wind-farm-building-at-sea.mp3 0:06 3 full Humber Gateway Wind Farm: The Cost of Clean Power https://qualla.com/humber-gateway-wind-farm/ Humber Gateway's levelised cost of electricity has been estimated at £147 per megawatt-hour - significantly higher than newer offshore wind projects coming online a decade later, where prices have dropped below £40. The economics of offshore wind have changed faster than almost a...

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