A new onshore wind farm on the Shetland Islands will connect 500,000 UK homes to renewable energy, Interesting Engineering reported.
Shetland is the windiest region in the UK, making it an apt choice for wind energy production, the publication explained. The Viking Wind Farm there is expected to generate around 1.8 terawatt-hours of renewable electricity annually, significantly upping the country’s clean energy capacity. Viking is set to be the UK’s most productive onshore wind farm and will provide electricity to the islands, as well as mainland UK.
This is the first time that Shetland has been connected to the Great Britain grid. Central to the project is a 161.6-mile subsea transmission link, which transports electricity from Shetland to the mainland.
