Rampion Wind Farm’s offshore substation took two years to build
This summer 13 members from Dorking Hub boarded a catamaran from Brighton Marina to head into the channel to visit the £1bn Rampion Wind Farm.
Around 13km – or seven nautical miles – from Brighton Marina, the wind farm is clearly visible from shore, but the sheer size and scale of the metal giants is only really to be appreciated from a close encounter.
E.ON was awarded rights to develop the zone off the Sussex coast as part of the Crown Estate’s third licensing round in 2010, planning consent was finally granted in July 2014 and onshore construction commenced with a 27km cable route. First making landfall off the coast at Worthing and buried underground, it goes through farms, fields and crosses roads, before terminating at a large electrical substation near Henfield. The cable routing is visible on satellite imaging.
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