EDF Energy Renewables has appointed a PR consultancy, MHW, to provide communications support for the company’s Blyth offshore wind demonstrator project off the coast of Northumberland, UK.
MHW will be assisting the EDF ER communications and project teams with media liaison, local community engagement and stakeholder support.
EDF ER recently established a project office in Blyth to coordinate the various construction and engineering activities associated with the scheme.
Construction work on a new electricity substation on the site of the former Blyth power station has started and gravity base foundations for the project are being built on the River Tyne, in Wallsend.
Offshore work will start in 2017 to install five MHI Vestas V164-8.0 MW turbines of 41.5MW total capacity, some 5.7km off the coast.
The two companies have already worked together on the 62MW Teeside offshore wind farm near Redcar.