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It is difficult to overstate the importance of offshore wind's contribution to the UK's renewable electricity generation capacity. As an island, the country has a large area of surrounding territorial waters and a significant proportion with a shallow sea bed - notably in the North Sea. Wind shares other renewables' intermittency problems [[North Sea Wind Variability]] however, manufacturers have improved the capacity factor in the latest designs of wind turbines [[GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbine]]
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== Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round One - 2015 ==
 
== Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round One - 2015 ==
  

Revision as of 14:11, 23 September 2021

It is difficult to overstate the importance of offshore wind's contribution to the UK's renewable electricity generation capacity. As an island, the country has a large area of surrounding territorial waters and a significant proportion with a shallow sea bed - notably in the North Sea. Wind shares other renewables' intermittency problems North Sea Wind Variability however, manufacturers have improved the capacity factor in the latest designs of wind turbines GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbine

Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round One - 2015

Twenty-six projects using a number of technologies - CHP, Solar PV, On-shore and Off-shore wind were the successful applicants. Offshore contributed 1162 MW out of a total 2139 MW (54%)

Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round Two - 2017

Eleven projects based on just three technologies Advanced Conversion Technologies, Dedicated Biomass with CHP and Off-shore wind submitted successful bids. Offshore contributed 3196 MW out of a total 3346 MW (96%) demonstrating that for the UK's renewable energy generation policy, offshore is becoming increasingly a 'one trick pony'

Round 3 Offshore Wind Projects - 2019

Of the 12 projects that were successful applicants for the 2019 Round 3 CfD allocation, five large offshore wind projects make up 5454 MW of the total 5775 MW (94%) and continuing the trend of fewer, bigger projects, overwhelmingly offshore wind

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Project No. Project Name Developer Location Capacity
1 Doggerbank Creyke Beck A P1 SSE Renewables / Equinor / Eni Dogger Bank 1200
2 Doggerbank Creyke Beck B P1 SSE Renewables / Equinor / Eni Dogger Bank 1200
3 Doggerbank Teeside A P1 SSE Renewables / Equinor Dogger Bank 1200
4 Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Phase 1 Sofia Offshore Wind Farm Limited Dogger Bank 1400
5 Seagreen Phase 1 Seagreen Wind Energy Limited Long Forties 454

Map data source: Ordnance Survey MiniScale covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021


Round 4 Offshore Wind Projects

In 2021 companies bid for "annual option fees" for the right to develop future wind farm projects. A further auction will take place under the Contract for Difference (CfD) support scheme to determine the price paid for electricity likely to be decided in 2022. Allowing for a planning process of 4-5 years the overall lead time on these projects is around 7 years. So these six projects represent the foreseeable future pipeline of offshore wind until the end of the decade.

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Project No. Preferred Bidder Location Capacity
1 RWE Renewables Dogger Bank 1500 MW
2 RWE Renewables Dogger Bank 1500 MW
3 Green Investment Group - Total Easter Regions 1500 MW
4 Consortium of EnBW and BP Northern Wales
& Irish Sea
1500 MW
5 Offshore Wind Limited
(a joint venture between Cobra Instalaciones
y Servicios S.A and Flotation Energy plc)
Northern Wales
& Irish Sea
480 MW
6 1500 MW Northern Wales
& Irish Sea
1500 MW


Map data source: Ordnance Survey MiniScale covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021

Project sites identified from The Crown Estate website