The set up of export cables at Dogger Financial institution C, the third section of the three.6 GW Dogger Financial institution Wind Farm within the UK, is scheduled to begin in early April.
The work might be carried out in three campaigns to put in three sections of export cable, with the primary marketing campaign beginning on or round 9 April 2024, when the cable laying vessel (CLV) NKT Victoria is anticipated to start work for the 1.2 GW offshore wind farm.
The vessel will first set up concrete mattresses on the Langeled and SEAL pipeline crossings, and the Dogger Financial institution B energy cable crossing, after which transfer onto cable set up.
NKT Victoria will concurrently lay and bury the export cable, besides on the crossings and in places the place seabed situations are unsuitable for simultaneous lay and burial; there, the cable might be floor laid.
The primary marketing campaign, which includes putting in the center part of the Dogger Financial institution C export cable, is anticipated to be accomplished round 29 April. The part between landfall and the cable that’s set to be put in in April might be put in within the second marketing campaign, scheduled for August. The third marketing campaign will see the final cable part, the one operating to Dogger Financial institution C offshore wind farm, put in in October 2024.
NKT is the primary contractor for the supply and set up of the high-voltage DC (HVDC) onshore and offshore export cable programs for all three Dogger Financial institution Wind Farm phases.
The corporate began the offshore export cable set up on the primary section, the 1.2 GW Dogger Financial institution A, in 2022 and accomplished the work in October final yr. In 2023, work began on the 1.2 GW Dogger Financial institution B.
The three-phase 3.6 GW Dogger Financial institution Wind Farm is being inbuilt UK waters some 130 kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire.
The development of Dogger Financial institution A is underway with the undertaking within the wind turbine set up stage and already having produced first energy. Nevertheless, the undertaking is now anticipated to be put into full operation in 2025 as a substitute of this yr, as initially deliberate, because the difficult climate situations had impacted wind turbine set up, and vessel availability and provide chain delays additional impacted progress, in keeping with SSE’s third-quarter buying and selling replace from February.
Dogger Financial institution B is anticipated to be totally operational in 2025 and Dogger Financial institution C in 2026.
The Dogger Financial institution Wind Farm is owned by SSE Renewables (40 per cent), Equinor (40 per cent), and Vårgrønn (20 per cent). SSE and Equinor are additionally planning so as to add a fourth section, Dogger Financial institution D, to what’s going to already be the world’s largest offshore wind farm. This a part of the undertaking continues to be within the planning and improvement stage.
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