Comments on: The Crown Estate to reveal potential new offshore wind leasing locations at industry event next month https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/the-crown-estate-to-reveal-potential-new-offshore-wind-leasing-locations-at-industry-event-next-month/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: New Power https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/the-crown-estate-to-reveal-potential-new-offshore-wind-leasing-locations-at-industry-event-next-month/#comment-31655 New Power Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:20:09 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=5255#comment-31655 For clarification, details of The Crown Estate and its history are here https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/our-business/our-history/
Now it describes its business:
“The Crown Estate is a £13bn UK real estate business … It includes central London, retail destinations across the country and offshore wind – in our capacity as manager of most of the seabed. We also have a substantial rural holding.
“Established by an Act of Parliament, we return all our profit to Treasury for the benefit of the nation. This has totalled £2.6bn over the last ten years.”

]]> By: Colin Megson https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/the-crown-estate-to-reveal-potential-new-offshore-wind-leasing-locations-at-industry-event-next-month/#comment-31350 Colin Megson Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:33:35 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=5255#comment-31350 “…a new round of rights could begin in early 2019, maintaining a pipeline of projects through to the late 2020s and beyond, to support both industry and government ambition for additional offshore wind capacity…”

3,200 MW Hinkley Point C [HPC] nuclear power plant will generate 24/7 electricity, at a capacity factor or 90%, for its 60 year design life, from an 1.75 square kilometre site. .

950 MW Moray East Offshore Windfarm [MEOW] will generate intermittent electricity, at an average capacity factor of 31.25% over its 25 year lifespan and occupy a sea bed area of 295 square kilometers.

It would take 9.7 MEOW-sized offshore windfarms to generate as much intermittent electricity each year as the 24/7 electricity delivered by HPC. That’s an installed capacity of 9,215 MW and they would occupy 2,860 square kilometres.

Those 9.7 offshore windfarms would have to be built a 2nd time and be 10 years into the 3rd build to deliver for 60 years; that’s a factor of X2.4 and an installed capacity of 22,116 MW.

I wonder how much the present-day monarchy and future monarchs appreciate what needs to be done in their name, in terms of the environmental desecration, ecosystem destruction and species wipe out, to deliver a truly atrocious product that will forever require fossil-fuelled back up?

I strongly suspect the whole Royal Family would get behind a 2nd nuclear power plant instead.

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