The Anonymous Widower

The Lincolnshire Wind Powerhouse

In August 2022, reports started to appear about the Outer Dowsing Wind Farm, like this article on offshoreWIND.biz, which is entitled Corio, Total Submit Scoping Report For 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Project.

There is now a web site.

• Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind  is a 1.5GW project located approximately 54km off the Lincolnshire coast.
• It is a joint project between TotalEnergies and Corio Generation.

This map from the Outer Dowsing Wind Farm web site, shows the location of the wind farm.

These are the sizes of the various windfarms, that are shown on the map.

• Dudgeon – 402 MW
• Hornsea 1 – 1218 MW
• Hornsea 2 – 1386 MW
• Hornsea 3 – 2852 MW
• Hornsea 4 – 1000 MW – Not shown on map.
• Humber Gateway – 219 MW
• Lincs – 270 MW
• Lynn and Inner Dowsing – 194 MW
• Norfolk Vanguard West – No information, but Norfolk Vanguard is 1800 MW
• Outer Dowsing – 1500 MW
• Race Bank – 580 MW
• Sheringham Shoal – 317 MW
• Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extensions – 719 MW
• Triton Knoll – 857 MW
• Westernmost Rough – 210 MW

Note that these total up to 11724 MW, but with Norfolk Vanguard the total is 135224 MW.

Gas-Fired Power Stations

There are also several active gas-fired power stations.

• Immingham – 1240 MW
• Keadby – 734 MW
• Keadby 2 – 893 MW
• Keadby 3 – 910 MW – Planned to be fitted with carbon capture.
• Saltend – 1200 MW
• South Humber Bank – 1365 MW
• Spalding – 860 MW
• Sutton Bridge – 819 MW

Note that these total up to 8021 MW.

Viking Link

The Viking Link is a 1.4 GW interconnector, that links Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire and Denmark, that should be operational at the end of 2023.

Gas Storage

There are two major gas storage facilities in the rea.

• Aldbrough Gas Storage is formed of salt caverns to the North of the Humber.
• Rough Gas Storage is to the East of the Humber in a depleted gas field.

Both will eventually be converted to store hydrogen, which could be used by local industrial users or the proposed hydrogen power station at Keadby.

November 21, 2022 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Hydrogen | Aldbrough Gas Storage, Corio Generation, Humberside, Keadby Hydrogen Power Station, Keadby Power Stations, Lincolnshire, Offshore Wind Power, Outer Dowsing Wind Farm, Rough Gas Storage, TotalEnergies, Viking Link, Wind Power