LONDON - A British electricity generator has announced plans to build the country's first offshore wind farm, capable of producing enough power for a town of 56,000 people and solving the problem of noise pollution.
PowerGen Plc is teaming up with a Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas to erect 25 huge wind turbines - each 190 feet tall with three 100 foot long blades - on a sandbank two miles off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
. A 1988 report by the former British power board put wind energy potential off Britain and Ireland at 240 terawatt (1,000 billion watts) hours per year, enough to meet 85 per cent of total UK electricity needs, the Financial Times reported yesterday.