A laser wind-profiling instrument to provide measured wind data for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development has been deployed by Forewind on a gas platform 125 kilometres from shore.

Forewind, developer of the Dogger Bank Zone, has published its first annual review, covering the consortium’s initial 18 months of activity since being awarded the offshore wind development rights for largest of the Round 3 zones by The Crown Estate.

The development of Forewind’s first offshore wind farm, known as Dogger Bank Project One, takes another step forward today with the announcement that the cable connecting the proposed wind farm to the national grid at Creyke Beck, in East Riding of Yorkshire, will come to shore between Fraisthorpe and Ulrome on the Holderness coast.

The wealth of career opportunities offered by the growing offshore wind energy industry will be the focus of a presentation given by Forewind together with The Crown Estate at a meeting of careers counsellors and training service providers in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire region, next week.

Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, will begin its preliminary onshore surveys this week as part of its investigations into potential corridors for the onshore underground cables that will connect its first wind farm project with the national grid at the Creyke Beck substation, near Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, potentially the world’s largest wind energy project, has received a Scoping Opinion from the Infrastructure Planning Committee (IPC) on its proposed approach to the development of its first project, Dogger Bank Project One.

The second wave buoy has been deployed on Dogger Bank this week to start measuring the site’s wave height and direction, as well as its currents.

Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, potentially the world’s largest wind energy project, has today announced the location of the first tranche for development.