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UK green energy jobs boost

by | Dec 6, 2024

A UK factory in Hull has won a contract worth more than £1 billion to supply turbine blades for a new wind farm in the North Sea — a move hailed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as another step towards making Britain “a clean air superpower”.

ScottishPower awarded the contract to Siemens Gamesa, the wind division of Siemens Energy, which will build 64 of its flagship SG 14-26 DD turbines for installation in the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm, located some 20 miles off the Suffolk coast.

UK’s green energy ambitions

The turbines will eventually provide enough green energy from the £4 billion wind farm to power almost a million homes. The contract also guarantees 1,300 jobs at the Hull factory, which has almost doubled its workforce over the past 12 months.

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