Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, United Kingdom
The UK’s largest source of renewable energy
Dogger Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm being developed in three phases – Dogger Bank A, B and C – located between 130km and 190km from the North East coast of England at their nearest points. Collectively they will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm and the UK’s largest single source of renewable energy.
Dogger Bank is the first assignment of our offshore jack-up installation vessel Voltaire. In total, the vessel will be responsible to install an impressive 277 wind turbines. Nice to know: the voltaire is the first seaworthy installation vessel equipped with our ULEv technology, short for Ultra-Low Emission vessel.
Jan Van Impe, Manager Jan De Nul Offshore Renewables:
Dogger Bank Wind Farm is exactly the type of project we had in mind when we took the decision to build our Voltaire. The scale and characteristics of the offshore Dogger Bank turbines offer the perfect challenge for this next generation state-of-the art jack-up installation vessel. We are excited to continue our contribution to the energy transition.
Dogger Bank in numbers
Did you know?
- One rotation of Dogger Bank’s wind turbines can power a UK household for two days
- Each turbine can save the equivalent of 9,000 vehicles’ emissions in a year
- Each turbine blade is 107m long, the size of a football field.
- Almost 3000 new UK jobs have been announced so far that will be supported by the construction and operation of Dogger Bank Wind Farm.
Dogger Bank in details
Dogger Bank is a joint venture partnership between SSE Renewables (40%), Equinor (40%) and Vårgrønn (20%). SSE Renewables is leading the development and construction phases of Dogger Bank Wind Farm and Equinor will lead on operations for its lifetime of up to 35 years. The wind turbines are of the type GE Haliade-X 14 MW. They will be installed on monopile foundations. The project will be the first High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) connected wind farm in the UK due to its distance from shore, introducing new transmission systems to the UK and paving the way for other large offshore wind farms.
