E.ON to build U.K.'s largest offshore wind farm

Dusseldorf (ots) - At the beginning of next year, construction of
Robin Rigg, the U.K.'s largest offshore wind farm with an aggregate
capacity of 180 megawatts, will start. E.ON UK plans to build 60
three-megawatt turbines to be sited off the coast of Scotland. Robin
Rigg is expected to enter service in early 2009 and will produce
approximately 550 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year,
enough to meet the average annual electricity needs of approximately
150,000 homes. Compared with conventional generation, the wind farm
will prevent about 230,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions
each year. Investments in the project will total about EUR500
million.

In the United Kingdom, E.ON currently operates Scroby Sands, a 60
megawatt offshore wind farm which entered service in 2004. In Germany
and Denmark, E.ON is involved in a number of pilot projects for
offshore wind farms. Here, however, substantial development work
remains to be done because such facilities have to be sited further
offshore at greater water depths.

E.ON CEO Wulf Bernotat said: "A secure, economical, and
environmentally friendly energy supply is of decisive importance for
us. With Robin Rigg we're making an important contribution to
reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. The project is also in line with
our strategy to further increase the share of the E.ON Group's total
generation-currently at about 11 percent-that comes from renewable
sources."

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