Norfolk chosen as operations hub for two of world’s largest wind farms

A generation of jobs in Great Yarmouth’s energy industry has been secured after the town was chosen as the home base for two of the world’s largest offshore wind farms.

Vattenfall, which is proposing to build the Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas wind farms off the East Anglian coast, has agreed a “multimillion pound” deal to reserve space at Great Yarmouth harbour to site an operations and maintenance base and dock the vessels needed for its projects.

Read the Great Yarmouth Mercury article here