Second Humber wind turbine factory planned

Able UK has previously said the AMEP scheme would create 4,000 local jobs.

A Danish energy company plans to build a second wind turbine manufacturing facility on the Humber estuary.

Dong Energy's proposed factory is to be at the 800-acre Able UK Marine Energy Park (AMEP) site at Killingholme, near Immingham, North East Lincolnshire.

It has signed a memorandum of understanding to build and operate an offshore wind facility on the site.

Construction work has started across the estuary in Hull on a £310m site for wind turbine production by Siemens.

Dong Energy already operates wind turbine support facilities in Grimsby, about nine miles from Immingham.

The proposed new facility is to include a large quay to load turbines on to ships bound for planned North Sea wind farms.

The first quays are expected to be working by 2018.

In March work started to upgrade the roads to AMEP and the port of Immingham.