More than a quarter of wind turbines at Dogger Bank A, the first phase of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have been installed.
So far, 27 of the 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines that Dogger Bank A will comprise are in place, according to information in Equinor’s results for the second quarter of 2024.
The company said on 24 July that despite the completion of Dogger Bank A being delayed until 2025 , its offshore wind power production was 287 GWh, with the majority coming from Dudgeon, Sheringham Shoal and Arkona offshore wind farms.
In its Q2 results, Equinor, one of the three Dogger Bank Wind Farm consortium partners, said the 27 wind turbines at Dogger Bank A have been installed “fully or partially” .
According to a Notice of Operations issued by Dogger Bank Wind Farm on 22 July, the installation vessel Voltaire is currently installing towers and nacelles and will return to install blades at a later date.
The first wind turbine on the first 1.2 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm phase was up in August 2023 and the wind farm began generating power in October 2023. Eleven more were installed by March 2024 when Voltaire left the site to undergo scheduled maintenance .
At the beginning of May, Dogger Bank Wind Farm reported that a blade on an installed turbine at the Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm sustained damage, after which GE Vernova launched an investigation into the cause.
While discussing the recent blade failure on a wind turbine at Vineyard Wind 1 in an earnings call on 24 July, GE Vernova’s CEO said the blade at Dogger Bank A was damaged due to an installation error .
Offshore construction on other components at Dogger Bank A is also progressing, with the project reaching another milestone this month as all inter-array cables were installed.
The Dogger Bank Wind Farm project is owned by the consortium of SSE Renewables, Equinor and Vårgrønn.
The entire 3.6 GW, three-phase project is scheduled to be completed in 2026.