Throwing the switch on Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm

A rare bright spot for the UK's energy supply as Seagreen's 3bn project begins generating power

Steve Wilson is a little windswept after stepping off a rocking boat in choppy North Sea waters. Wilson is programme director of Seagreen, Scotland's largest offshore windfarm, which this week began producing power.

Wilson has just sailed an hour out to sea from Montrose, in Angus on the east coast of Scotland, with other local, interested parties. There, they witnessed a technician hop aboard one of the first turbines to feed power back to the mainland. A drone operator onboard protested about conditions that made it tricky to send up the machine. We did deliberately decide to build it somewhere windy," Wilson laughed after landing safely back on shore.