The Daily Populous Saturday April 4th, 2026 day edition
Authored by marineinsight.com and submitted by Sciantifa

The biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 3, connected its first export cable from the North Sea seafloor to the British coast on March 26, 2026, inching it closer to delivering clean electricity to over 3.3 million U.K homes.

Developed by Fredericia-based Danish energy company Orsted, the offshore wind farm lies in the North Sea, 120 km off the eastern shores of England and will boast a capacity of 6 GW once it becomes fully operational.

The $11.2 billion project will significantly boost the UK’s renewable energy capabilities and reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.

Featuring Siemens Gamesa’s 14 MW Turbines, the Hornsea 3 will create around 5,000 construction jobs and 1,200 long-term roles.

Each wind turbine is 54 m high and weighs around 3500 tons.

It will be operated from Grimsby and contribute to the government’s target of 50 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and net-zero by 2050.

NKT, the export cable supplier for the project, began making the cables 3 years ago and will complete the work in the summer.

Jan De Nul, who is leading the project, will transport and install 422 miles of export cables by the end of 2026.

Companies such as Hitachi Energy, Aibel, and Heerema Fabrication Group are contributing to the manufacturing and assembly of critical components.

Parts for the wind farm were shipped from around the world. For instance, large steel structures such as jackets were brought from the Dutch Port of Vlissingen.

The new connected cable is made of two HDVC cables, which are bundled together.

It will carry power generated by the offshore turbines to land. The fibre optic cable transmits data back to the wind farm operations centre.

Hornsea 3 is to become the firm’s 3rd Gigawatt scale project in the region, after the 1.2-GW Hornsea 1 and 1.3-GW Hornsea 2.

Duncan Clark, Head of Ørsted UK & Ireland, said that Hornsea 3 will play a vital role in achieving the government’s climate and clean energy goals while creating jobs.

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Lonely_Noyaaa on April 4th, 2026 at 00:57 UTC »

What's impressive is that Hornsea 1 was the largest wind farm in the world when it was completed in 2020. Then Hornsea 2 overtook it in 2022. Now Hornsea 3 is about to do the same thing again, with a single zone of the North Sea progressively breaking its own world records every couple of years.

Dr-Chibi on April 4th, 2026 at 00:22 UTC »

Now witness the Power this fully Armed and Operational Wind Farm!!

CDN-Social-Democrat on April 3rd, 2026 at 23:31 UTC »

It's too bad that Trump and his cronies are spewing so much Oil & Gas propaganda.

The climate crisis is real.

We have world record wildfires across the planet each year now.

We have ocean warming and ocean acidification so bad that coral bleaching is wiping it all out. Destroying the life of our oceans is not smart...

We are already in the Holocene Extinction which is the sixth mass extinction in this whole planets history. This time humanity itself is the asteroid...

We can do Energy cleaner and cheaper.

Solar Power, Wind Power, Grid Storage. These are the cheapest and cleanest forms of electricity generation.

We are also getting Green(er) Technologies for transportation, steel making, and so forth.

It's time to stop having bad predatory actors of varying disgusting types hold back brighter and better!