SSE Renewables and Equinor have decided to withdraw from plans to produce green hydrogen using the fourth phase of the world's largest offshore wind farm. The UK's plans for Dodge Bank Wind Farm D will now focus on supplying electricity to the grid only.
The two companies launched the fourth phase of the project a year ago. It is targeted at 3A 2GW turbine is added to the 6GW turbine.
According to the partners, Dogger Bank D has now secured a grid connection location in Yorkshire, in the north-east of England, and is also considering a potential hybrid connection to the European electricity market to increase capacity, Recharge reported.
SSE and Equinor said: "With the location of the East Ridding onshore grid connection in East Ridding, Yorkshire, the option to use wind energy produced by Dogger Bank D for hydrogen production, as publicly consulted in autumn 2023, has been retired from the project. ”
Now that the location of the grid connection has been determined, Dogger Bank D will focus on connecting to the transmission system.
From ancient lands to renewable energy hubs.
Dogger Bank is a lonely sandbar that straddles Dutch, German, Danish and British waters in the central part of the North Sea South.
Evidence of research, human habitation, vegetation, and mammalian remains suggest that the area was once a geographical block known as Doggerland, which connected continental Europe to the United Kingdom.
Before sea levels rose after the last ice age (ice age), the area gradually turned into an island and was eventually submerged underwater between 8000 and 5500 years ago.
The Dogger Bank offshore development zone covers an area of approximately 8,660 square kilometres with ocean depths ranging from 18 to 63 metres. It is located between 125 and 180 miles (290 km) on the east coast of Yorkshire.
3.The 6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is divided into three 1The 2GW phase construction, known as Dogger Bank A, B, and C., respectivelySSE Renewables and Equinor have announced plans to create the fourth phase of a possible Dogger Bank wind farm in February 2023. In October 20223, the project's first turbine at Dogger Bank A began spinning and generating electricity.
Offshore wind farms in the UK use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission to supply electricity to the national grid via Dogger Bank. This is the first time that HVDC transmission technology has been applied to a wind farm in the country.
In addition, the project will install the most powerful offshore wind turbine currently in operation, GE's Haliade-X. Each turbine boasts an impressive power output of up to 14MW, with a single rotation of the blades powering a British home for more than two days.
When completed, Dogger Bank's facility will include 277 offshore turbines, generating enough clean energy annually to power 6 million homes and saving enough CO2 to replace 1.5 million vehicles.
Focus on supplying power to the grid.
In February 2024, Dogger Bank D welcomed the confirmation of the location of the grid connection. The wind farm will be connected to Birkhill Wood, a new 400kV substation to be built in East Riding, Yorkshire, as part of the National Grid's large grid upgrade project.
As East Ridding, Yorkshire, has been identified as a location for onshore grid connections, the project's option to produce hydrogen using Dogger Bank D's wind energy – which was publicly solicited in autumn 2023 – has now been removed.
Since the project was launched in February 2023, Dogger Bank D has been looking at plans to produce green hydrogen at a dedicated onshore facility, as well as the possibility of power transmission.
According to the companies, Dogger Bank D will now "undertake a site selection process to identify potential cable corridors and other locations where onshore infrastructure may be used for grid connections," the project said.
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