The port says it is ready to support Boris Johnson\u2019s pledge to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy within a decade and has already invested GB\u00a312m upgrading its quays, equipment and storage areas to support the industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Great Yarmouth, we have already invested significantly in our facilities to support the sector and we have a proven track record of delivering big offshore energy projects,\u201d said Richard Goffin, Port Director at Peel Ports Great Yarmouth.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were selected to act as the marshalling harbour for the Galloper Windfarm and more recently the EA1 windfarm that became fully operational this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n At the Conservative party conference this month, the prime minister committed \u00a3160m to upgrade ports and factories for building turbines to help the country “build back greener”.<\/p>\n Yarmouth\u2019s location close to the Southern North Sea which has the largest concentration of offshore wind projects in the world makes it ideally positioned to deliver large-scale offshore projects to meet government targets.<\/p>\n It\u2019s situated in close proximity to two of the largest windfarms by Vattenfall and Scottish Power, where there is a combined 6.4GW capacity still to be installed.<\/p>\n Peel Ports Great Yarmouth is continuing to invest in its offshore facilities, with significant development plans in the pipeline, including the possibility to expand the port\u2019s footprint by land reclamation.<\/p>\n In September, Norfolk County Council (NCC) announced GB\u00a36m of funding to deliver an offshore energy Operations and Maintenance (O&M) campus at the port.<\/p>\n Built in close proximity to the Southern North Sea Offshore Energy developments, the campus will reduce O&M costs and maximise efficiency of supporting activities, as well as provide access to deep water and the river port for O&M businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ports are gearing up to take advantage of the UK\u2019s plans for green growth and Great Yarmouth is no exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}