by business editor Trevor Sturgess

The world’s biggest wind farm is to go ahead off the Kent coast.

London Array, which will eventually have more than 300 turbines, was given a boost today with a pledge by consortium partners DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar to invest £2bn in the first phase of the project.

It is likely to create scores of jobs in Thanet and beyond, and give a huge boost to the East Kent economy.

The scheme is key to the Government’s campaign to achieve a substantial part of UK energy from renewable resources such as wind and wave power.

Work will begin this summer, with the first power due to be generated in 2012. It will come ashore at a sub-station at Graveney, near Faversham, where it will be fed into the National Grid.

Once complete, the scheme will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, supplying enough power for around 750,000 homes across Kent and Greater London.

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