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MHW To Manage PR For Offshore Wind Farm

Leading North East PR consultancy MHW has been appointed to provide PR and stakeholder engagement support to EDF Energy Renewables on the development of a new offshore wind farm off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland.

The appointment to provide support on the Blyth offshore project follows MHW’s role in providing communications support for the company’s Teesside Offshore Wind Farm at Redcar and previous involvement in various onshore wind farm developments around England.

EDF ER recently established a project office in Blyth to coordinate the various construction and engineering activities associated with the scheme.

Construction work on a new electricity substation on the site of the former Blyth power station has started and gravity base foundations for the project are being built on the River Tyne, in Wallsend.

Offshore work will start in 2017 to install five turbines of 41.5MW total capacity, some 5.7km off the coast. The turbines will provide enough low carbon electricity to power 33,000 homes.

Newcastle-based PR consultancy MHW will be assisting the EDF ER communications and project teams with media liaison, local community engagement and stakeholder support.

MHW was established by experienced PR directors Wayne Halton and Ian Watson in 2000 and provides consultancy services to a wide range of business-to-business and hospitality clients around the region.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by MHW PR .