Turbines Move From Wick Harbour To Camster Wind Farm

8th October 2012

E.ON's Camster wind farm is in the process of receiving the delivery of 25 Vestas V80 2MW wind turbines. They began to arrive at Wick Harbour at the weekend and are now being transported by road in small convoys. Further boats will be arriving with more turbines in the next few days.

Construction at the site began November 2011 and turbines are due for delivery to the site from Monday 8 October. The turbines will be transported from the harbour north quay, heading west along Martha Terrace onto River Street. Cross the roundabout onto Station Road which leads onto Bankhead. Right turn onto the A882, Thurso Road where loads travel west bound to a left turn onto the site access.

In order to minimise traffic disruption, the turbines will be delivered to the Camster site during off peak travel times, and no diversions or roadworks will be necessary.

The wind farm will be situated between Lybster and Watten and is capable of generating up to 50MW of electricity, enough power for up to 35,000 homes and is currently planned to be generating clean, green electricity by June 2013.

E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating electricity, retailing power and gas, developing gas storage and undertaking gas and oil exploration and production. It is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. E.ON employs around 12,000 people in the UK and more than 79,000 worldwide;

In the UK, E.ON supplies power and gas to around five million domestic, small and medium-sized enterprise and industrial customers - meaning the company has to buy approximately 122.7 billion kWh of power and gas each year to meet their needs. E.ON also offers innovative energy services and technologies tailored to meet its customers' needs, and is helping customers become energy fit by encouraging them to insulate their homes, moderate their energy usage and even generate their own power;

E.ON's generation portfolio includes world-class gas-, coal- and oil-fired power stations. E.ON is a market leader in combined heat and power (CHP), and is one of the UK's leading green generators with 20 wind farms and the UK's first wave power generator, with another 1,500MW of renewable capacity under development.