Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm zone, has today announced the appointment of Lord Deben, as its Chairman.

The first wave buoy has been deployed on Dogger Bank this week to start measuring the sites wave height and direction and sea surface temperatures.

Lee Clarke, former Senior Corporate Development and Strategy Manager with RWE npower, has been appointed as General Manager of the Forewind consortium, development partner for Dogger Bank.

Forewind has appointed two consultancies to handle the role of Fishing Liaison Coordinator (FLC), one to deal with the fishing industry and the other with relevant governmental and regulatory stakeholders.

All the reports and presentations from the Forewind stakeholder workshops held in April in Hull, Newcastle and London are now available online for comment by Friday, August 13.

Almost 7000 line kilometres will be covered by a zone-wide acoustic and geophysical survey which is now underway across the Dogger Bank Zone.

Forewind, development partner for the Dogger Bank zone, has issued a request for expressions of interest (EOI) from contractors that would like to be considered for the design, fabrication, certification, installation and commissioning of meteorological masts.

Forewind, together with The Crown Estate and assistance from UK-wide Regional Development Agencies, has launched a web-based Supply Chain Contacts Directory which provides a snapshot of all the companies which attended the recent series of countrywide supply chain events.