DUDGEON

In 2024 a Development Consent Order (DCO) was granted by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero enabling the project to develop extensions to both the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm and the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm Wind Farm (www.sheringhamshoal.co.uk) which currently power around 710,000 UK homes.

Equinor is the operator of both these windfarms which are located in the waters of the Greater Wash off the coast of Norfolk, UK.

Sheringham Shoal was fully commissioned in 2012 and has an installed capacity of 317MW from its 88 wind turbine generators (3.6MW) while Dudgeon, completed in late 2017, has an installed capacity of 402MW from its 67 wind turbine generators (6MW). The consent enables the Extension Projects to double the capacity of the existing wind farms, providing renewable energy to power nearly 1.5 million UK households and making a significant contribution to the UK’s decarbonisation goals.

The projects are also planned to leverage the existing operations and maintenance base at Great Yarmouth, which will continue to serve the operational Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon wind farms, whilst generating over £370 million in direct gross value added (GVA) to the East Anglia and UK economy.

Whilst the consent provides separate rights for each offshore wind farm to develop its own extension, Equinor is planning a joint development of the two projects with a common transmission infrastructure. As part of the consent, the Extension Projects have a shared point of connection at the National Grid Norwich Main substation.