Dogger Bank Creyke Beck

Dogger Bank Creyke Beck will be the first stage of development in the Dogger Bank Zone. It will have an installed capacity of up to 2.4GW and will connect into the existing Creyke Beck substation near Cottingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It will comprise up to two offshore wind farms, each with an installed capacity of up to 1.2GW.

Dogger Bank Creyke Beck will comprise:

- Offshore wind turbine generators (the number and generating capacity is yet to be decided)

- Alternating current (AC) inter-array cabling between the offshore wind turbine generators and offshore platforms

- Offshore collector stations and offshore AC to direct current (DC) converter stations including foundations and scour protection measures

- Offshore operations and maintenance infrastructure including offshore accommodation

- Permanent moorings, navigational buoys and scour protection measures

- Offshore meteorological masts and metocean equipment

- DC subsea export cable system from the offshore AC to DC converter stations to the landfall on the UK coastline

- Crossing structures at the points where the export and inter-array cables cross existing subsea cables and pipelines

- A buried onshore cable joint at the landfall where the subsea export cables come onshore and join the onshore cables

- Underground onshore DC export cable system from the landfall area to the onshore DC to AC converter station(s)

- Up to four onshore DC to AC converter stations which could be up to 30m in height and will require a combined permanent land take of up to 9 hectares with additional land required for mitigation which may include landscaping

- An AC underground cable from the onshore converter station(s) to National Grid’s substation at Creyke Beck.

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