East Anglia THREE is the second project ScottishPower Renewables is developing in the East Anglia Zone.
Background
The East Anglia THREE project is the second project to be developed in the East Anglia Zone, and is wholly owned by ScottishPower Renewables.
Public engagement on the project began in November 2012, with a series of public consultation activities taking place throughout 2013, 2014 and 2015 and an application for development consent submitted to the Planning Inspectorate in November 2015.
The application was accepted in December 2015, and an examination of the project commenced in June 2016, concluding on 28th December 2016.
On 28 March 2017 the Planning Inspectorate issued a report of recommendation to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on East Anglia THREE. The Secretary of State approved the application for consent which was granted on 7th August 2017.
In June 2019 BEIS approved a non-material change to increase the overall capacity of the windfarm to 1400 MW.
The Project
East Anglia THREE is located in the northern half of our zone and covers an area of approximately 305km2. We anticipate the project including:
- Offshore wind turbines and associated foundations (anticipated to be up to 172 wind turbines, each having a rated capacity of between 7 megawatts (MW) and 12 MW with an installed capacity of up to 1,400 MW;
- Up to two meteorological masts and foundations;
- Up to two LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) monitoring buoys;
- Up to four offshore collector stations and up to two offshore converter station platforms;
- Up to one offshore platform housing accommodation facilities;
- Subsea inter-array cables between the wind turbines and converter station and collector station platforms;
- Up to four subsea export cables to transmit electricity from the offshore platforms to shore;
- Up to four interconnector cables between the East Anglia ONE and East Anglia THREE Projects;
- Scour protection around foundations and on inter-array and export cables as required;
- Landfall at Bawdsey with onshore transition pits to join the offshore and onshore cables;
- Up to four onshore underground cables pulled through existing ducting to be laid by East Anglia ONE, running for approximately 37 km from landfall to the connection point at Bramford, Suffolk, with jointing pits, to transmit electricity to a new onshore transformer substation;
- An onshore transformer substation at Bramford, Suffolk, to connect the offshore windfarm to the National Grid;
- The permanent and / or temporary compulsory acquisition (if required) of land and / or rights for the proposed Project;
- Overriding of easements and other rights over or affecting land for the proposed Project;
- The application and / or disapplication of legislation relevant to the proposed Project including inter alia legislation relating to compulsory purchase; and
- Such ancillary, incidental and consequential provisions, permits or consents as are necessary and / or convenient.
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