Moray East

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.

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.