The giant jack-up installation vessel Pacific Orca arrived this week at the site, some 15km off the Cumbian coast in northwest England, to install the first batch of five monopile foundations and associated equipment.

“Having installed the offshore sub-station in mid-May we are now starting on the main offshore construction works, installing the wind farm,” Charlie Jordan, WoDS project director at ScottishPower Renewables tells Recharge.

“We