ScottishPower confirms Lowestoft as long-term home for UK offshore wind with multi-million investment

The first of four electricity transformers that will convert the clean green energy from the second biggest offshore windfarm in the world for transmission to more than one million homes has made its way to its new home in Suffolk.

When people think of offshore wind turbines, the blades tend to be the interesting part. But for engineer Rachel Beedie, the gigantic steel structures sunk into the seabed that hold up turbines as tall as London’s The Shard are the most fascinating.

The offshore converter station for ScottishPower Renewables’ biggest-ever windfarm - East Anglia THREE - has taken to the water for the first time as it heads to Norway to complete construction.