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  World's biggest offshore wind farm off English coast approved
  
  Energy Secretary Ed Davey has given development consent for what is planned to be the
  
  world's largest offshore wind farm, a project which should see 288 turbines located off
  
  Lincolnshire and Norfolk. The Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm consent also includes on and
  
  offshore sub-stations, meteorological stations and underwater cabling.
  
  The scheme was examined as a nationally significant infrastructure project by the
  
  Planning Inspectorate.
  
  Chief executive Sir Michael Pitt said. "This was the largest offshore wind energy application
  
  to be examined by the Planning Inspectorate and required a Panel of three Examining Inspectors
  
  who were given the task of considering the evidence put to them by the interested parties.
  
  "The examination of the application was completed within the timescales prescribed in the
  
  Planning Act and a recommendation made to the Energy Secretary. His decision supported
  
  their recommendation."
  
  Meanwhile, the Inspectorate has announced that the application from Channel Energy Ltd
  
  for its proposed Atlantic Array offshore wind farm has been accepted, by the Secretary of State
  
  for Communities and Local Government, for examination.

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