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    ENGLAND – Hornsea 2, the largest wind farm in the world today, officially operates off the coast of East Yorkshire from the morning of August 31.

    The Hornsea 2 project will produce enough electricity to supply more than 1.3 million households. The farm built by Danish electricity company Orsted covers an area of ​​462 square kilometers, equivalent to more than 64,000 football fields or four times the size of the city of Liverpool. Hornsea 2 has a total of 165 turbines, each more than 200 m high and 81 m long. The rotation of a turbine blade generates enough electricity for a family to use all day. The total capacity of the farm is 1.3 GW of renewable electricity. 390 km of undersea cables are used to bring electricity produced by Hornsea 2 to shore at Horseshoe Point in Lincolnshire, England.

    According to Duncan Clark, Ørsted’s UK regional director, Hornsea 2 not only provides low-cost clean energy to millions of UK households. Before Hornsea 2, the world’s largest wind farm was neighboring Hornsea 1. However, with larger-scale projects being built in the North Sea, it is likely that Hornsea 2 will not hold the record for long. To the north, Dogger Bank’s farm could supply electricity to 6 million households once operational next year. Ørsted also plans to build Hornsea 3 farm with twice the capacity of Hornsea 2.

    The farm was inaugurated in a situation where the UK faces high energy prices in winter due to global gas prices and focuses on renewable energy to cope with the climate crisis. Currently, Ørsted company has 13 offshore wind farms in the UK, providing 6.2 GW of renewable electricity to the country, enough to meet the needs of more than 7 million households.

    Source: VnExpress

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