Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm – Variation 3
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In September 2016, the Secretary of State granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The pre-application, examination and DCO documents can be found on the Planning Inspectorate website.
The DCO authorises Orsted Power (UK) Limited to construct and operate up to 2 offshore generating stations with a maximum capacity of 1800MW. The project is located adjacent to Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the North Sea and is located approximately 90km off the East Yorkshire coast. The development could comprise of up to:
- 300 wind turbines
- 2 offshore accommodation platforms
- 3 offshore HVAC collector substations
- 2 offshore HVDC converter substations
- 2 offshore HVAC reactive compensation stations
- subsea inter-array electrical circuits
- subsea cable connections to the shore
On 29 October 2018, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) received a request from Orsted Power (UK) Limited to vary the Deemed Marine Licences contained within Schedules 8-11 of the Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Order 2016.
The MMOs decision was to vary the DML as detailed in the Notice of Variation, effective from 22 August 2019.
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