Sheringham Shoal Smashes Its Own Production Record

Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm produced more than 170 GWh in December last year, which represents a monthly generation record for the wind farm.

Sheringham Shoal’s December 2015 production of 170.6 GWh was well above the budget of 122.2 GWh. Cumulative production amounted to 1,164.9 GWh for the whole year. Both the production for December and for 2015 in total represented record periods of generation since commissioning, according to Scira.

Bjørn Mo Østgren, General Manager of the JV company Scira Offshore Energy Ltd, said: “This is definitely good news. The team at Sheringham Shoal has demonstrated excellent performance through 2015 on HSE, availability and cost control. The total production based availability for 2015 was 97.9%, well above the stretched target at 96,5%. In the same period the operations costs has been controlled below budget.”

December was a monthly record in the UK, with wind supplying 17% of Britain’s electricity demand. The previous monthly record of 14% was set in January 2015. A record 11% of the UK’s electricity was generated by wind in 2015, up from 9.5% in 2014, according to statistics from National Grid.