VoteClimate: Planning Act 2008: Hornsea Offshore Wind Farm - 26th May 2016

Planning Act 2008: Hornsea Offshore Wind Farm - 26th May 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Planning Act 2008: Hornsea Offshore Wind Farm.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-05-26/debates/16052641000030/PlanningAct2008HornseaOffshoreWindFarm

The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Andrea Leadsom)

The development would consist of up to 300 wind turbine generators, each with a capacity of between 6 MW and 15 MW, approximately 89 km east of the East Riding of Yorkshire coast. The total installed capacity of the development would be up to 1,800MW. The Planning Inspectorate’s examining authority commenced examination of the application on 16 June 2015 and the examining authority’s report was delivered to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on 16 March 2016.

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