In February 2009, Mainstream Renewable Power

Mainstream Renewable Power

Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. is a privately held renewable energy development company founded in 2008 by Eddie O'Connor and former Airtricity staff following the sale of Airtricity to E.ON and Scottish and Southern Energy...

 was awarded exclusive rights to develop Neart Na Gaoithe (which means “strength of the wind” in Gaelic), a £1.1bn offshore wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 with a potential capacity of 420 MW in the outer Firth of Forth

Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south...

, some 30 km north of Torness.

In 2011, surveyors conducting a detailed preparatory survey of the sea floor published sonar images of the wrecks of the two submarines - K-4

HMS K4

HMS K4 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915 and commissioned on 1 January 1917, one year before the end of World War I.- Accident 17 November 1917 :...

 and K-17

HMS K17

HMS K17 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness.- Loss :K17 was sunk on 31 January 1918 during the night time fleet exercises later known as the Battle of May Island when she was attached to the 13th Submarine Flotilla. ploughed into K17 at the head of a line of...

 - sunk during the Battle of May Island

Battle of May Island

The Battle of May Island is the name given to the series of accidents that occurred during Operation E.C.1 in 1918.Named after the Isle of May, an island in the Firth of Forth, close by, it was a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy ships on their way from Rosyth in Scotland to fleet...

in 1918.