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A lot of them do relate to the connection side, which grid data suggests is ongoing as Tenet continues to undertake maintenance.

On the Dolwyn 5 link and also the Epsilon converter platform, which brings power to shore, Orsted did seem confident these issues were close to being fixed, however.

For

more on this, I spoke to Orsted Chief Construction Officer Patrick Harnett on the sidelines of the event.

The wind farm, obviously, it's one of the largest wind farms that we have.

In the North Sea, it's nearly a gigawatt.

so you're not measured by the challenges that you have.

You're measured by how you overcome them.

However, the developers behind the projects eventually prevailed in court, even with a regulatory climate.

Danish wind developer Ørsted's Revolution Wind started delivering power to the New England grid earlier this year, and Vinyard Wind also wrapped up construction in March.

In a moment, we'll hear more about offshore wind lease buyouts.

That's a new approach the Trump administration is taking to stop further offshore wind development.

Now let's head back to Rhode Island here.

Orsted's Revolution Wind has installed its 65th and final turbine.

704 megawatts, $6.2 billion.

The federal government issued two stop work orders against the project.

Like, there's definitely a moment in the early 2010s where, you know, the Britain's energy system goes down a path of approaching sort of decarbonisation by providing you know, increasingly de-risking returns for investors, providing price support mechanisms and subsidising.

And then you get this very strange thing that then you've got, you know, Vattenfall, Orsted, these are state-owned companies, EDF, you know, is another one, who are operating generation assets in UK shores.

And when you look back in hindsight, you think, wouldn't that have been a good moment to set up a British Vattenfall, a British Orsted or a British EDF? And then used the British market as a base on which to go and build capabilities to go and enter into other markets.

But that didn't happen.

And I think that that's partly because there was just such a kind of ingrained resistance to public ownership as it was just assumed that this was the worst thing ever.

One of them is called the Oatfield wind farm development.

This one was proposed by Orsted and would have consisted of 11 wind turbines across a number of townlands in the Broadwood and Oakville area.

And these turbines, as we've talked about before, were up to 180 metres in height.

I mean, they are massive.

We're going to see offshore, onshore.

It's very ironic that our tax dollars are now paying wind developers like Orsted to not build wind farms.

I'm just like, this is lunacy.

This is the country I live in, though, and I choose to live here.

Very few people from Grimsby are traveling to, to Siemens, uh, to go and do the, uh, manufacturing and blade manufacture work there.

Although some of them are doing the engineering, um, and maintenance, uh, work with, uh, RWE or Orsted.

Uh, and I think we saw the big shift.

So although we saw some of the, uh, the, the smaller, like Humber Gateway, the Centrica facilities in the, uh, early 2010s, it wasn't until, um, a huge investment came, uh, that revitalized the docks that everybody, you know, felt very sad that they'd kind of fallen into disrepair and underuse, and nobody was going there anymore.

A big investment from Orsted, uh, into a brand-new facility changed people's impressions of the kind of places that you could work, the kind of workplaces that were acceptable, modern, um, actually comfortable.

Uh, 'cause some of the other places that I was going to on the docks, the engineering sites, it was, uh, the, it, it was like going into somebody's- ... hoarding shed.

It w- [laughs] There was no heating, uh, there was no cooling.

So there's a bit in the report, as we were talking about earlier, about, uh, the, the people coming in to Grimsby, uh, which is necessary and welcome, but also seen as competitive in an area where we've just talked about the, the kind of deprivation, low wage.

And then at the same time, my secondment in Japan was over.

And I moved into renewables because that's when it was all taken off and getting exciting and moved to Denmark and worked with Ørsted on the commercial side.

So that was a bit of a change.

Worked there for a number of years and then came over with Ørsted to Taiwan to work on a project here as the deputy program director.

And then moved on to SRE, so Sonara for a number of years as well and worked on a few of the bids, successful bids as commercial director lead.

Then moved into operations and maintenance as well.

Well, Phil, um, I've chosen to stand now because I feel, I feel quite passionately I need to represent our community at a higher level over what is the most important and talked about issue in, in Garff and obviously, uh, over the last twelve months, this has been the Moor Vaan wind farm proposal.

I've spent eighteen months poring over hundreds of documents, going to MIMA meetings, uh, trying to understand deeply technical information, witnessing how that's dealt with, uh, by, um, both, uh, uh, Ørsted's, um, solicitors and our own government officers.

And now that the process is coming to a close, I just don't feel that, um, Garff have been able to put their voice over strongly enough, and the only way I can represent that now is to take it further and, and, and stand because the MIMA process is closing today.

Um, I can't take it any further from behind the desk o-of Garff Commissioner, so I need to take it to Tynwald.