Southwold offshore windfarms 9 Jan 2023

 Scottish power's East Anglia One is in the North Sea some 43km from the coast of Southwold. It makes a significant contribution to UK Grid. 

As at 6am today Mon 9 Jan 2023, approx 14.67 Gigwatts was being generated by wind in the UK (56.9% of total of 26Gigawatts) . 

National Grid
National Grid 6am 9 Jan 2023


Scottish Power's development of windfarm's is continuing with the East Anglia Two project which is also off Southwold some 32.6km from the coast. 

The cables for these system will come ashore on Suffolk's coast.  You can read more on my previous post.