Methil port north of Edinburgh, once the focus of Scotland's coal exports, is set to tap a greener kind of energy as Samsung Heavy Industry Co. constructs the world's biggest wind turbine in the town's faded harbor.
The 7-megawatt model with a span of 171 meters is being built in Methil because of its proximity to three North Sea sites that will accommodate almost one-fifth of the 5,000 new turbines the U.K. aims to erect in the world's biggest wind-power program.
Britain's alternative-energy plans are reviving ports from Hull on England's east coast to the Belfast docks in Northern Ireland that built the Titanic, boosting returns for investors including Goldman Sachs and paring costs for turbine builders and operators such as Siemens AG and Iberdrola SA.