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Dong Energy has launched a £10 million fund to help local community projects on the east coast of the UK over the next 20 years.
Dong said it will distribute around half a million pounds a year to help local initiatives for each of the next 20 years.
The fund will ensure that local people benefit from two of the company’s offshore wind farms which are currently under construction.
The Race Bank and Hornsea One projects are due to be fully operational in 2018 and 2020, respectively. Race Bank is a 580MW project and Hornsea One will have capacity of 1.2GW.
Dong Energy UK chairman Brent Cheshire said: “We believe local people should get a chance to benefit from the construction and operation of offshore windfarms, which are some of the UK’s biggest energy infrastructure projects.
“Although our windfarms are located offshore, their transmission connections require onshore facilities and our construction and operations bases are very much a part of local communities. This fund is a practical way in which we can say thank you for the fantastic support we get.”
Construction of the onshore substations and installation of around 12 kilometres of onshore cable, from Walpole to a point north of Sutton Bridge, has begun and work is due to begin offshore in early May.
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