Iberdrola USA has announced today that its sister company ScottishPower Renewables, in conjunction with Dong Energy of Denmark, has opened Iberdrola's first offshore wind farm – West of Duddon Sands, a 389MW facility located in the Irish Sea, approximately 12.5 miles off the seaport of Barrow-in-Furness in North West England.
The joint owners officially commissioned the US$ 2.6 billion project on October 30 2014. More than 1,000 workers spent the last two years erecting the 108 3.6MW Siemens turbines, connected through a 125-mile web of undersea cable in a 26-square-mile patch of the Irish Sea.
