The Humber Estuary could be set for a power engineering and construction jobs boost after E.ON announced its intention to build a new windfarm in the region.
A new anemometry mast is being installed by the energy company, which represents the next step of investigations for a new wind facility in the area.
Located 7km off the Holderness coast, the mast, which will be used to measure wind speeds in addition to other data, will stand 85m high.
E.ON believes that a potential windfarm at the Humber Estuary would have the ability to generate power for as many as 195,000 homes in the region.
Humber Gateway development manager Vaughan Weighill said that the prospect of a new windfarm was "exciting".
"Our initial assessments of the site have shown that this is an ideal location for a wind farm, the offshore mast will collect valuable wind speed data that will help to confirm this, as well as measuring wave heights and sea currents which will feed into the engineering design of the wind farm project," he explained.
E.ON announced earlier this week that it was planning to remove the standing charge for its gas prepayment meter customers.
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