UK: Hull City Council to Discuss Wind Turbine Factory Plans

A GBP 200 million wind turbine factory plans are to be discussed by Hull City Council, This is Hull and East Riding news portal writes.

If the plans are approved they could create about 800 jobs and lead to 10,000 in the renewables supply chain and support services.

Last year in December, Associated British Ports (ABP) and Siemens plc joint venture submitted application to Hull City Council for the development of the proposed Green Port Hull facility.

Hull West and Hessle MP Alan Johnson said that the Green Port development could be the city’s salvation, and he urged all parties to support the application before the council on Wednesday.

Mr Johnson said: “What is important and what could be our salvation is Siemens.

 “It is not just jobs in a bit of a manufacturing industry. It is jobs being created in the most progressive part of manufacturing in the renewables sector, where every country in northern Europe and every country in the world is looking for the products that Siemens will come to produce, so I think this really is our salvation. If we get that planning application through on May 9, everything else falls into place.

“If we get the tier-one suppliers, so we are building not just the nacelle – the engine – but doing the assembly, it means there will be Hull people building the huge blades and towers.

“All of that could come and other companies will tend to come, too, and it will form a cluster because we have everything they need in this area.” 

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Offshore WIND staff, May 9, 2012; Image: Siemens