But the Danes who built a big offshore wind farm in 2002 have a head start.
ON, the Rampion offshore wind farm could create enough electricity to power up to 450, 000 homes.
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Environmental campaigners have raised concerns that an offshore wind farm could damage the South Downs.
Alistair Gill, head of offshore wind farm development, said the project was "half the size of the original plans".
At the moment, about 80% of the materials and services involved in constructing an offshore wind farm are imported.
The money will improve access to the business park and help it provide support for an offshore wind farm.
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Highland councillors have given their backing to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.
The world's largest operational offshore wind farm is the 175-turbine London Array.
Highland councillors have been advised not to object to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.
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The plan considered the environmental and economic impacts of a range of long-term transmission planning scenarios, including a 500 MW offshore wind farm.
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The American businessman has said the 140-bedroom hotel at Menie will only proceed if plans for an offshore wind farm off Aberdeen do not proceed.
The number of turbines planned for an offshore wind farm has been reduced from a maximum of 278 to 240, the firm behind the project has revealed.
Eneco Wind UK, based in the Netherlands, won the Isle of Wight licence, which is one of nine sites around the UK earmarked for large offshore wind farm projects.
To help compensate for this shortfall, the country plans to create a 50 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, and expand capacity to 10, 000 MW offshore by 2020.
The offshore wind farm was the runner-up.
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Other planned projects which have fuelled a demand for building workers include a proposed 30-turbine offshore wind farm at Scarweather Sands, off Porthcawl, the proposed development of film studios at Llanharan, near Bridgend and city centre developments in Swansea.
The locations and numbers of offshore wind turbines in the London Array wind farm were altered to take account of red-throated divers.
It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.
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