DUDGEON

Equinor has been awarded an Agreement for Lease by the Crown Estate, the intention being to seek consents to increase the generating capacity of both the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm and the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.

Equinor is the operator of both these offshore wind farms 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 capability 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 Agreement for Lease provides separate rights for each offshore wind farm to develop its own extension. Equinor is looking at both separate and common development opportunities.

Equinor is proposing a joint development of the two projects with a common transmission infrastructure.

As part of the common DCO application, the Extension Projects have a shared point of connection at the National Grid Norwich Main substation.

These extension projects will have a combined generating capacity of 719MW which will make an important contribution to the UK’s target of 30GW of electricity generated by offshore wind by 2030.