Onshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 250MW are located in the United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Germany, and France.
Over the last year, Octopus Energy has announced the opening of seven new onshore wind farms across Europe. The firm’s energy generation arm oversaw the construction of the facilities, one of which is the 50 megawatt (MW) Cumberhead wind farm in Scotland.
Onshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 250MW are located in the United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden, Germany, and France. According to the company, the seven projects will generate enough clean energy to power 250,000 homes per year while having the same environmental impact as planting 1.3 million trees.
Octopus Energy intends to increase the output of its clean energy projects from 3.2 gigatonnes (GW) to 20 GW – enough to power 15 million homes across Europe, by 2030. The Cumberhead wind farm’s 12 turbines were completed last month, according to Octopus Energy.
The company has a power purchase agreement in place with Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Andrex, Huggies, and Kleenex, to meet approximately 80% of their electrical power needs in the UK. Across the English Channel, the 9 MW Berceronne wind farm in France went online in July of last year, and was joined by the 24 MW Cerisou farm in November.
Octopus Energy purchased the 22.4 MW Biebelnheim-Gabsheim wind farm near Frankfurt, Germany, last year. The site features four 790-foot-tall turbines. Two of the remaining three wind farms are in Poland, with capacities of 40 and 19 MW, respectively, and the third is in Sweden, with a capacity of 86 MW. Octopus owns 49 percent of the latter.
Octopus Energy Generation CEO Zoisa North-Bond stated, “It’s fantastic to see this flurry of wind farms we’ve built across Europe start generating clean power, and we’ve got big plans to invest in a lot more.” New green energy is critical to accelerating our transition to a renewables-first economy and weaning ourselves off costly fossil fuels. To ensure that this is the last energy crisis, we can build our way out using cheap green power.”