RWE Renewables has installed the first of 90 turbines at its 857MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm off east England.
Cadeler jack-up Wind Osprey put the MHI Vestas 9.5MW machine in place over the weekend.
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RWE said first power is expected in the spring.
Turbines are being marshalled at Abler Seaton Port in Teesside.
“The 9.5MW turbines are amongst the most powerful operating anywhere in the world, and capable of energising a typical UK household for more than 29 hours with just a single turn of the blades,” said RWE.
“Each turbine has a greater swept area than the London Eye (turbine 187m, London Eye 120m), and measures 187 metres from the base of the tower to the tip of the blades.”