Prince Charles opens Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm
ByDavid McPhee
Prince Charles chats with marine co-ordinator Colin Brown and Gordon Morrison in the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm control room at Wick Harbour.
HRH the Duke of Rothesay opened Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm in Wick today, calling it an “engineering feat”.
The Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm, situated near a former oil field in the Moray Firth, is an 84-turbine development able to power up to 450,000 homes in the UK.
Prince Charles toured the Beatrice project’s operations maintenance base before unveiling a plaque commemorating the 588 megawatts (MW) project.