Last night at the Flowton Parish Meeting the developers of the major wind farm East Anglia One off the Suffolk and Norfolk coast, Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall Wind Power gave a detailed presentation.  They are seeking a route to connect the power from the 7.2Gwatt windfarm to the national grid at Bramford. The farm will be built in six phases of 1.2 GWatt each, about the power of Sizewell B.  Their intention they said was to bring the power ashore somewhere between the Deben and Orwell and route underground cables either north east or south west of Ipswich.

It is important that to meet their schedules for construction and operation they need to pick a technology acceptable to local people.  Undergroundtransmission using DC technology is their choice.   The cables they claim would be in a corridor about the size of an A class road but once laid could be covered by vegitation or car parks but not housing.  Overall this link would appear much more acceptable than the proposals from National Grid for the link from Bramford to Twinstead Tee.

At Bramford ther would need to be a DC to 400kv AC converter station about 100metres long, 50 meters wide and 25 metres high.  Not such good news.

For company produced information see www.eastangliawind.com