Fourth Phase Could Bring 2 GW More to World’s Already Largest Offshore Wind Farm Under Construction

Illustration; Photo source: SSE Renewables

Dogger Bank D, the potential fourth phase of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, whose first three phases totalling 3.6 GW are currently being built, is planned to have a generation capacity of around 2 GW. If built, the fourth phase would bring the total installed capacity of the UK project – already the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction – to over 5.5 GW.

SSE Renewables and Equinor, which own the Dogger Bank A, B and C offshore wind farms through a consortium that also comprises Vårgrønn, have now launched a public consultation period on the Dogger Bank D proposals that runs until 7 November.

The consultation will provide the opportunity for the community to find out more about the project, ask questions, and share feedback that will help refine plans for the project and guide further development of the proposals ahead of its potential application to the Planning Inspectorate and Secretary of State for a Development Consent Order (DCO) as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.

A second phase of consultation is planned for summer 2024.

The developers have already held several meetings with the Planning Inspectorate and submitted a scoping report in April this year, with an opinion on the report adopted this June. In May, SSE Renewables and Equinor, through a company named Gatroben Developments 2 Limited, also filed for an electricity generation licence with Ofgem and were granted the licence on 20 July.

The two companies’ plans to add the fourth phase to the 3.6 GW project made headlines last year as the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, already being the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, would become even larger.

----The news is quoted from offshoreWIND.biz by Adrijana Buljan (www.offshorewind.biz)

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