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The London Array is a 175 turbine 630MW Round 2 offshore wind farm located 20 km off the Kent coast in the outer Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom. It is the largest offshore wind farm in the world, and the largest wind farm in Europe by megawatt capacity. Construction of phase 1 of the wind farm began in March 2011 and was completed by mid 2013, being formally inaugurated by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron on 4 July 2013. The second phase of the project was refused planning consent in 2014 due to concerns on impact on sea birds. ==Description== The wind farm site is more than off the North Foreland on the Kent coast in the area between Long Sand and Kentish Knock, between Margate in Kent and Clacton in Essex. The site is mostly away from shipping lanes.〔Harris, Stephen. (Your questions answered: The London Array ) ''The Engineer (magazine)'', 19 November 2013.〕 The first phase consisted of 175 Siemens Wind Power SWT-3.6 turbines and two offshore substations, giving a wind farm with a peak rated power of 630 MW. Each turbine and offshore substation is erected on a monopile foundation, and connected together by of 33 kV array cables. The two offshore substations are connected to an onshore substation at Cleve Hill (near Graveney) on the north Kent coast, by four 150 kV subsea export cables, in total .〔 It is named after London because the power goes to the London grid.〔Fehrenbacher, Katie. (The massive London Array offshore wind farm is finally done and it’s awesome ) ''Gigaom'', 8 July 2013.〕 The smaller Thanet Wind Farm is to the south of it. The array is intended to reduce annual emissions by about 900,000 tons, equal to the emissions of 300,000 passenger cars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「London Array」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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