Construction teams have completed concrete pouring at Blackhillock where the onshore substation is being built for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm project, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said.
To connect the wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth with the grid on land, power will be carried by offshore and onshore cables to the new onshore substation at Blackhillock.
Beatrice is located approximately 13 km off the Caithness coastline.
The development site covers an approximate area of up to 130km and will consist of 84 WTG Jacket Substructures for Siemens 7MW turbines.
The offshore construction began recently with the first set of piles for the jacket foundations installed in early April.
The wind farm is owned by SSE (40%), Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) (35%) and Red Rock Power Ltd. (25%) and is expected to be fully commissioned in 2019.