The world-leading offshore wind farm in waiting - Orsted’s Hornsea One - has celebrated the 100th turbine installation.
A further 74 will complete the huge array 120km off the Humber approaches, almost doubling current record holder Walney Extension, off the west coast.
Two massive jack-up vessels are working in tandem, carrying four Siemens Gamesa turbines at a time from the assembly base in Hull, where the 75m blades are made.
Once fully online, Hornsea One will generate enough green electricity to power well over one million homes, with operations and maintenance controlled from Grimsby, from where the first crews recently launched as early installations power on.
When the 95th turbine is commissioned, the record can unofficially be claimed, though Orsted anticipates it to be fully commissioned in early 2020. All 174 turbines are expected to be installed later this summer, in a site spanning 407 sq km.
Less than a month ago - when it passed the halfway stage of 87, it marked Grimsby's installed capacity hitting 2GW, with a pipeline of projects laid out to quadruple that figure.
