Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm – Variation 4
On 10 December 2014, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm. The pre-application, examination and DCO documents can be found on the Planning Inspectorate website.
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The DCO authorises the licence holder to construct and operate up to three offshore generating stations up with a total capacity of up to 1200 Megawatts (MW), within the Hornsea zone. The project is located approximately 120 kilometres (km) North-West of the Lincolnshire coast. The development could comprise of up to:
- 332 wind turbine generators
- two offshore accommodation platforms
- five offshore HVAC collector substations
- two offshore HVDC converter stations
- an offshore HVAC reactive compensation substation
- subsea inter-array electrical circuits
- subsea cable connection to the shore
Construction of Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm is now complete and the wind farm became fully operational in 2019.
On 28 July 2022, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) received a request from Ørsted to vary Deemed Marine Licence 4, contained within Schedule 11 of the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014 (as amended). The variation request was to change the licence holder from Hornsea 1 Limited to Diamond Transmission Partners Hornsea One Limited.
The MMO decision was to vary the deemed marine licence as requested, effective of 2 November 2022.