Power for renewal
Vattenfall is Europe’s fifth largest generator of electricity and the largest producer of heat.
Consolidated sales in 2007 amounted to SEK 143,639 million (GBP 10,644 million*). Vattenfall’s vision is to be a leading European energy company, and the main products are electricity and heat.
* exchange rate .0741 GBP/SEK
Vattenfall’s operations in United Kingdom
Vattenfall has acquired the Thanet Offshore Wind project off Margate, Kent. On completion, the wind farm will have an installed capacity of some 300 MW. The acquisition of Thanet Offshore Wind will make Vattenfall one of the biggest wind power operators in Britain.
Earlier this autumn Vattenfall acquired the wind power companies AMEC Wind Energy Ltd and Eclipse Energy Plc.
Vattenfall wholly owns and operates the Kentish Flats Off Shore Wind Farm, comprising of 30 efficient wind turbines capable of producing up to 3 MW of electricity each.
The annual production at Kentish Flats is 280 GWh, which corresponds to the consumption of 70.000 households*. (* 4000 KWh per household)
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