SSE Renewables and Equinor have renamed their trio of projects in the Dogger Bank totalling 3.6GW.
The offshore wind farm is being built in three phases. These are currently identified as Creyke Beck A, Creyke Beck B and Teesside A. To recognise their link to the historic Doggerland area, these will now be known as Dogger Bank A, Dogger Bank B and Dogger Bank C, respectively.
Dogger Bank, a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea between 125 km and 290 km off the North East coast of England.
Onshore construction works for the project commenced at the start of the year and offshore construction will take place at each site consecutively between 2022 – 2026.
Located at least 130km from the Yorkshire Coast in water depths ranging from 20m to 35m, the three sites will have an installed capacity of 1.2GW each and feature GE Haliade – X 12MW wind turbines. The first project is expected to be operational in 2023.
The turbines will be installed on monopile foundations and the preferred supplier for the foundation fabrication will be announced in 2020, the developers said.