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[GarethM]

6 minutes ago, difflock said:

Now now, that square mile may well choose to be as many acres as it likes.

I was highlighting that it's not the actual size of the installation, it'll just be the purchase of the farm/estate under a CPO.

 

Hinkley Point A at 500MW had a transformer area of only 2 acres outside the main gates.

Edited May 29 by GarethM

[Steven P]

likewise suspect that is the total areas and not the built area - will include landscaping, land set aside, trees and so on. Construction areas will of course be removed and not built on for the project though there will be cabins and temporary parking for a year or so

[nepia]

11 hours ago, Johnsond said:

The wind farms are all along the east coast 

moray east, moray west, sea green etc etc a licence to print money. Sadly the politicians in particular the green idiots in Scotland have given this environmental disaster the green light up here. 

I was referring specifically to the import of power from Shetland and the mainland infrastructure construction; I think that's a separate project.  I can't speak for Beatrice 1, 2 etc

[Steven P]

Since it was the last one mentioned, I have run Loch Buidhe through the software this morning and it looks like the substation is about 125620m2 including a couple of access roads and a diverted track... or 30 acres (12 hectares). From the satellite images the forest area recently cleared around it is 250 acres (101 hectares) - certainly not all going to be built on.

 

Substation compound is about 325m by 230m. A lot smaller than the figures quoted above.

[htb]

5 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Since it was the last one mentioned, I have run Loch Buidhe through the software this morning and it looks like the substation is about 125620m2 including a couple of access roads and a diverted track... or 30 acres (12 hectares). From the satellite images the forest area recently cleared around it is 250 acres (101 hectares) - certainly not all going to be built on.

 

Substation compound is about 325m by 230m. A lot smaller than the figures quoted above.

Coachford site details see below, that's what is planned at the moment. wait for the battery storage and Hydrogen plant to add in. The dimensions below do not include the platform towers of which there are 4 at 50m by 50m. Post 2030, the undersea line from Shetland to come into the site and another line of Pylons to take power out.

 

What size is the site?
The approximate size of the application site
(contained within the redline boundary) is 84ha,
whilst the dimensions of the proposed substation
platform are approximately 551m x 320m, not including
the groundworks required to make a level platform.
The layout of the substation has been developed as
an Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) substation which will
consist of AIS equipment located outdoors, including
busbars, switchgear and synchronous compensators,
which are used to marshal and control electricity supply.
Indicative landscape strategy plan
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[Steven P]

550m x320m is about 60 acres, still a little bit off the 200, 500 or 800 acres quoted above

[GarethM]

43 according to my calculator.

 

A hectare is 2.4 acres

[Steven P]

Just now, GarethM said:

43 according to my calculator.

 

A hectare is 2.4 acres

 

Yup, your right, mind went a little off it just then

[Steven P]

... and a little more context... Blackhillock 'the UKS largest substation' up near Kieth is not a lot bigger than the quarry next door.....

[htb]

3 hours ago, Steven P said:

... and a little more context... Blackhillock 'the UKS largest substation' up near Kieth is not a lot bigger than the quarry next door.....

Would you want to live near either, when you have no say in the matter, SSEN are only doing a smoke and mirrors exercise. There is no need for the infrastructure when it is mostly a get rich scheme for foreign investors and for export to the EU.