Overview
- Developers ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar announced Monday that all 95 monopiles and their transition pieces have been installed off the Suffolk coast, marking the end of the foundation campaign.
- Seaway7 carried out the offshore work using its jack‑up vessel Seaway Ventus and installed monopiles that weigh 1,200–1,800 tonnes and 20‑metre transition pieces supplied by Haizea Wind Group and the Navantia‑Windar consortium.
- Turbine installation, which began in April, is underway with 95 Siemens Gamesa 14+ MW units planned and the project reported to be past half of turbine work in trade updates.
- The £4 billion project has driven almost £2 billion of UK supply‑chain investment and supports about 2,300 construction jobs plus roughly 100 long‑term regional roles.
- East Anglia THREE is the 50:50 UK joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables (Iberdrola) and Masdar and its engineering firsts — the largest monopiles installed from a jack‑up in Europe and 115‑metre blades for the UK — strengthen domestic clean‑power capacity and energy security.