Dong Energy to Build UK Offshore Wind Farm

DONG Energy will build the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in Britain, which should be the world's largest when it is completed, the Danish energy company said on Wednesday.

The 1.2-gigawatt wind farm off the Yorkshire coast should be fully commissioned by 2020 and will meet the electricity demands of more than one million homes in Britain, DONG Energy said in a statement.

Hornsea's capacity will be nearly double the capacity of DONG's planned Walney Extension wind farm in the Irish Sea which will have a 660-megawatt capacity.

Reporting by Nina Chestney