Green energy on horizon as UK's biggest windfarm given go-ahead

With 174 wind turbines with wing spans of 154 metres, the UK's biggest, most remote wind farm ever built has been given the go-ahead.

It will be the size of a metropolis and produce enough energy to power one. It will have a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts, enough to power 1 million homes.

Once built, Hornsea Project One will sit 75 miles off the Yorkshire Coast and span an area five times the size of Hull.

Each of the turbines will be taller than Blackpool, almost twice the size of Big Ben or 10 Angels of the North.

The massive development offshore is creating industry onshore. A factory is currently being built in Hull, due to open in September, which will manufacture the huge turbines.

When open, it will employ more than 1,000 people. The Green Port in Hull is coming to life, says Siemens Project Director, Finbarr Dowling.

"It's brilliantly positioned geographically," he said. "This was the right place to invest in and this is the right time to see itself as the centre of this great industry."

Consumers will, however, pay more than four times the current market price for power despite the world's biggest windfarm producing half the electricity of one coal-fired power station.

A greener alternative however, in Britain's so-called 'Energy Estuary' is just over the horizon.