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Commissioning of 95-turbine array pushed back to H2 2025
SSE Renewables, Equinor and Vargronn have confirmed the 1200MW Dogger Bank A wind farm off east England will not reach commercial operations until the second half of 2025.
The announcement was made after the project team worked with GE Vernova to assess the impact of three recent blade failures – two at Dogger Bank A and a third at the 804MW Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts in the US – on the US manufacturer’s Haliade-X turbine.
SSE said: “The expected completion date reflects the delay resulting from the additional quality assurance procedures and remedial works put in place by GE Vernova following the Vineyard Wind blade failure.
“SSE expects the financial impact from the delay will not materially impact project equity returns, which remain comfortably above SSE’s offshore wind hurdle rate.”
Turbine installation had already begun to slip last Autumn when the developer cited supply chain constraints including delays to manufacturing of nacelles, as first reported by subscriber-only reNEWS last September.
A total of 95 turbine were subsequently targeted to be in place by the second quarter of this year before the availability of vessels was one of the factors cited by SSE in its decision to warn investors in April that full operations were likely to be pushed back to 2025. |
