Siemens Wins GBP101 Mln Deal To Link UK Offshore Wind Farm To Grid

28th Jun 2010 13:17

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Germany's Siemens AG (SI) said Monday it has been awarded a GBP101 million contract to connect the Lincs U.K. offshore wind farm to the electricity grid, as companies in the U.K. start to ramp up offshore wind power. Siemens Energy is also supplying 75 of its 3.6 megawatt wind turbines for the 270-megawatt wind farm that will be supplying power to around 200,000 homes in eastern England. Construction of the Lincs wind farm is scheduled to start in late summer this year, with first generation planned for 2012. Siemens will supply an offshore substation platform, which will bundle the power generated by the wind turbines before it is transported through high-voltage cable to the mainland. The transformers on the substation platform will step up the 33-kilovolt voltage from the wind turbines to a transmission voltage of 132 kilovolts. High-voltage subsea cables will transport the power to the grid feed-in point, which is located near King's Lynn in Norfolk. U.K. utility Centrica PLC (CNA.LN) is leading development, construction and operation at Lincs, which is also owned by Denmark's Dong Energy and Siemens Project Ventures. -By Selina Williams, Dow Jones Newswires +44 207 842 9262; [email protected] (END) Dow Jones Newswires June 28, 2010 08:17 ET (12:17 GMT)