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Onshore work begins for Dogger Bank Wind Farms

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Construction work for Dogger Bank, the world’s biggest offshore wind project, is underway on the Yorkshire coast.

A joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor (formerly Statoil), Dogger Bank Wind Farms will eventually see 3.6GW of installed capacity spread equally across three sites in the North Sea: Creyke Beck A, Creyke Beck B and Teesside A. According to the developers, the completed project will deliver five per cent of the UK’s electricity demand, powering around 4.5 million homes.

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Coastal preparation for Creyke Beck A and B is the first part of the project to break ground, with onshore cable infrastructure being installed as well as bulk earthworks for the HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) converter stations in East Riding. The three sites that make up Dogger Bank are located between 130km and 200km offshore, meaning HVDC is needed to transmit power from the 12MW wind turbines back to the grid.

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