Orsted on plans for on-land Isle of Man windfarm

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00:00I think there's a couple of options for sort of landfall sites as part of the project as well,

00:06have you got any clearer understanding of where that may be or preference I suppose,

00:13or is that still up in the air at this moment? There's a lot of factors that feed into that,

00:20so the two locations we have in Groudon and Port Scilly are both on the basis of

00:26Manx Utilities' feedback to date, which is they want any pilot lands, they want it to be in the

00:31Douglas area, that kind of makes sense because you can imagine that's where Poelrose is,

00:36Middle River substation and the existing interconnector lands into Port Scilly already,

00:41so I can't say whether we've come to a point where we'll be able to narrow it down and it

00:46may be perfectly feasible that we get to the stage of application that we're still discussing

00:50feasibility with Manx Utilities about both being options, it would be an either or option,

00:55so we're not talking about landing in both locations, but the reality is we've just got

01:00to work that through with Manx Utilities, it's their job to own, operate and distribute electricity

01:05on the island, so in some ways we're in their hands but I'm pleased to say it's a conversation

01:09that's continuing and going really well.