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SSE And RWE Tweak North Falls Project Following Public Input, DCO Application Now Expected In 2024

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

RWE and SSE Renewables have made a number of changes to the North Falls offshore wind project in the UK, a proposed extension to the existing 504 MW Greater Gabbard, whose implementation will likely move the planned date for filing a development consent order (DCO) application into 2024. The most significant changes to the project plans include removing the northern array area and reducing the number and height of wind turbines.

These two paragraphs introduce the article.

The developers are tweaking the project following a review of the feedback received from the North Falls statutory consultation held during the summer.

Initially, North Falls comprised two offshore array areas totalling 150 square kilometres and will now have a single array occupying 95 square kilometres. This also moves the wind farm farther offshore, with its closest point to shore now being 42 kilometres, 20 kilometres farther out at sea than proposed originally.

It looks like RWE and SSE Renewables have listened to the public and acted.

But then the developers are two of the most experienced in the UK.

September 7, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | North Falls Wind Farm, Offshore Wind Power, RWE, SSE, SSE Renewables, Wind Power