For the technologies around which the project will be built — 8MW MHI Vestas V164 turbines, new-look concrete gravity base (CGB) foundations from BAM, and 66kV cables supplied by Nexans — are key to the cost-cutting campaign to transform European offshore wind into a mainstream power source.
In fact, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that Blyth, off northeast England, and other projects like it are a sine qua non for the declaration yesterday by 11 key industry players that offshore wind can achieve a cost of €80 ($91) per MWh and below, and so be fully competitive with new conventional power by 2025.
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