How much did London Array cost to build?
London Array is the offshore wind farm of 175 Siemens 3.6 MW turbines with rotor diameters of 120 m and an installed capacity of 630 MW, about 20 km off the north Kent coast in the Outer Thames Estuary, with onshore work from July 2009, offshore works from March 2011, first power in October 2012, the last turbine installed in December 2012 and a formal inauguration by Prime Minister David Cameron on 4 July 2013, owned by a consortium of RWE, Orsted, CDPQ and Masdar. Wikipedia gives its cost as GBP 1.8 billion, while POWER magazine speaks of a GBP 2 billion (USD 3 billion) project and NS Energy of GBP 3 billion.
Reported project cost
拢1.8 billion
Approximately $2.81 billion
Cost basis: 2013
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost2013
Project metrics
Key dimensions
- PowerRWE UK
- 630 MW
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