Teesside Wind Farm also known as Redcar Wind Farm is a consented 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...

 to be constructed just to the east of the mouth of the River Tees

River Tees

The River Tees is in Northern England. It rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines, and flows eastwards for 85 miles to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar.-Geography:...

 and 1.5 km north of Redcar

Redcar

Redcar is a seaside resort in the north east of England, and a major town in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It lies east-northeast of Middlesbrough by the North Sea coast...

 off the Teesside

Teesside

Teesside is the name given to the conurbation in the north east of England made up of the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar, Billingham and surrounding settlements near the River Tees. It was also the name of a local government district between 1968 and 1974—the County Borough of...

 coast, in the North Sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is being developed by EDF Energy Renewables, a company jointly owned by EDF Energy

EDF Energy

EDF Energy is an integrated energy company in the United Kingdom, with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom...

 and EDF Energies Nouvelles

EDF Energies Nouvelles

EDF Energies Nouvelles is a French renewable energy corporation, half owned by French electric utility Électricité de France. It was formed in 2004 from its predecessor SIIF Energies and was floated on the Paris stock exchange in 2006....

. The farm will stand in water of depths up to 20m and will cover an area of approximately 10 km².

In 2004 EDF was awarded a 20 year lease from The Crown Estate to develop a wind farm at Teeside part of the first UK offshore wind farm tendering process known as "Round 1".

The project includes constructing the wind turbines and their foundations, installing 2 power cables linking the turbines to a new electrical substation required for connection into the UK National Grid at Tod Point, near the Teesside Steelworks

Teesside Steelworks

Teesside Steelworks is a large steelworks located on the south Tees, Teesside, England. It stretches from Redcar, where the largest blast furnace in Europe is located, to east Middlesbrough area....

. Foundations will be 5.5m diameter monopoles drilled or driven about 35m into the seabed. Electrical cables will carry 33kV.

Planning consent was authorised in September 2007. The consent is for 27 turbines

Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device may be called a wind generator or wind charger. If the mechanical energy is used to drive machinery, such as for grinding grain or...

 with a nameplate capacity of 62 MW.

Planning

A number of regulatory consents are required for the construction and the operation of Teesside Offshore wind farm. The key consents applied for are as follows:-

• Consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act (1989) for the electricity generating facility.

• Consent under Section 34 of the Coast Protection Act (1949) for construction on or under the seabed below MHWS.

• Licence under the Section 5 of the Food and Environment Protection Act (1985) for the placement and deposit of construction materials in the sea below MHWS.

• A PD Teesport Works License to construct on under or over tidal waters and tidal lands below the level of high water in the harbour.

• Planning permission under Section 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the onshore underground electricity cables and the substation.