Siemens gives go-ahead to wind turbine project

A thousand new jobs are to be created as part of a multi-million pound investment in wind turbine production in East Yorkshire.

Siemens has announced the go-ahead of its Green Port turbine building plant in Hull , along with a second site in Paull in East Yorkshire making rotor blades.

The company is investing £160 million across the two locations and its port partner Associated British Ports (ABP) is investing a further £150 million in the Green Port Hull development. The investment will provide a huge boost to the UK’s offshore wind industry and the Humber region. The combined investments of £310 million will create up to 1,000 jobs directly, with additional jobs during construction and indirectly in the supply chain.

Prime Minister David Cameron said:

The Green Port Hull project has been in the making for around four years and is the product of a huge team effort between many national and local political, business and community parties and many people within Siemens in the UK, Denmark and Germany, and ABP.

The much anticipated investment is a landmark moment for the UK offshore wind

industry. It is the first manufacturing plant of its kind for Siemens next generation

blade technology. Each rotor blade is 75 metres long and when rotating covers an area the size of two and a half football pitches.