Forewind

• 1:  
• 2: About Forewind
  • 2.1: About Forewind
  • 2.2: Background
  • 2.3: Owners
  • 2.5: Useful links
  • 2.6: Health and safety
• 3: Dogger Bank
  • 3.1: Dogger Bank
  • 3.2: Zone overview
• 4: Zone development
  • 4.1: Zone development
  • Current page is 4.2: Grid
  • 4.3: Stakeholders
  • 4.4: Fisheries
  • 4.5: Surveys
  • 4.6: Suppliers
  • 4.7: Champions for Wind
• 5: Projects
  • 5.1: Projects
  • 5.2: Consenting process
  • 5.3: Dogger Bank Creyke Beck
• 6: News
  • 6.1: News
• 7: Events
• 8: Downloads
  • 8.1: Latest downloads
  • 8.2: Forewind/Dogger Bank
  • 8.3: Dogger Bank Creyke Beck
  • 8.4: Notices to Mariners
  • 8.5: Factsheets
• 10: Contact

Forewind continues to work closely with National Grid to secure suitable connection points to the UK transmission network for the Dogger Bank projects.

In March 2010 Forewind signed a connection agreement for the first project, to connect at Creyke Beck, north of the Humber Estuary. In October 2011, Forewind signed two more connection agreements for an additional two projects likely to be located at an existing National Grid substation site at Lackenby, east of Middlesborough.

Forewind is engaged with National Grid to identify further suitable connection points to provide timely, cost-effective and environmentally acceptable solutions for subsequent projects.

From a technical perspective, work has begun to design the electrical system to connect from the offshore zone back to the National Grid substations. These connections will make use of innovative High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology. These assets will eventually be owned and operated by an Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO).