The Dogger Bank wind farm construction team has officially marked the start of offshore construction work by laying the first HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) export cable off the coast of Yorkshire (northern England). Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be the UK’s first HVDC-connected wind farm.

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Tier 1 supplier NKT is leading the construction of the Dogger Bank A offshore cable that will connect the first part of the wind farm to land at Ulrom. The length of the line is more than 130 km.

ACE Winches in Aberdeenshire and LMR Drilling UK Ltd in Birkenhead are among the companies assisting NKT in this effort.

The campaign will continue throughout 2022, with work to begin on export cables for Dogger Bank B in the East Riding and Dogger Bank C in Teesside in subsequent years.

“With the first groundwork due later this year and the first turbines scheduled for installation in 2023, we are well on our way to first power,” said Steve Wilson, project director at Dogger Bank Wind Farm.

The Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being built in three phases known as A, B and C. The project is a joint venture between SSE Renewables (40%), Equinor (40%) and Eni Plenitude (20%). NKT will supply and install high voltage DC onshore and offshore cable for all three phases of the project. The company will use its vessel NKT Victoria to lay a 320 kV DC submarine cable system in the challenging environment of the North Sea.

Once completed, Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with an installed capacity of 3.6 gigawatts (GW). Each phase will have a capacity of 1.2 GW.