Orsted is in the final stages of commissioning a flood defence mechanism at the onshore substation for its 573MW Race Bank wind farm off east England.
Onshore works contractor J Murphy & Sons has added two 250,000-litre cylindrical plastic tanks to the substation near Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire.
The four-metre wide and five-metre deep cylindrical units are built in plastic and were recently cleaned out by drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc ahead of commissioning.
Lanes Site Supervisor Aaron Dunkley said: "The tanks are of a significant size to give appropriate flood protection for a strategically-important energy generation facility and allow regulated discharge of the water into local water courses."
Orsted fully commissioned Race Bank earlier this year and the project features 91 Siemens Gamesa 6.3MW turbines.
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