E.ON, one of the country's leading green generators, is on the verge of completing the installation of an armoured power cable that will get the UK's first offshore wind farm producing power again.

Blyth offshore wind farm has been out of action from some time after the undersea power cable was damaged by the rocky conditions on the seabed.

But owners E.ON have been hard at work replacing the cable from the two wind turbines to the shore, using a different route to allow sections of the cable to be buried in sand.


Martin Roberts, Construction Projects Manager for E.ON, said: "We had to order a specially armoured cable from Italy, which has a steel outer shell to cope with the extreme conditions at Blyth.

"We started work at the end of the last week and hope to have the offshore work finished in the next few days, although we probably won't energise the cable until the week after next.

"It's been a very tricky project but we've had fantastic weather for the offshore work and we're confident that we're going to get the work finished and to plan, and then the UK's first offshore wind farm will be up and running again."

(CD/JM)