Inside the $11.6 Billion Dogger Bank: The World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Far off the coast of Yorkshire, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm is set to become the world's largest offshore wind farm, generating enough power to supply six million UK homes. Discover how this groundbreaking project, with its monumental 72-meter-long foundations and towering Haliade-X turbines, is overcoming challenges and redefining the future of renewable energy. From foundation installations to innovative HVDC cables, learn about the incredible engineering feats making Dogger Bank a renewable energy powerhouse.
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[briangriffiths]

Oh dear, more research would have shown the true scale of GB (for our foreign friends, GB is Scotland, Wales and England which has a common Grid, Northern Ireland is part of the Irish Grid) wind activity. All 4 Dogger Bank farms are in construction with a new Dogger Bank D and Dogger South in the planning stages. Together they will provide over 10 GW of electricity. Simultaneously 3 wind farms are in construction off the East Coast of Scotland amounting to 2.5 GW and a new onshore wind farm set to be the most productive in the world has just been completed on Shetland, a mere 450 MW but expected to produce 70% of nameplate power. Add to this 25 GW of projects being developed off the Scottish coasts and the 5 GW Berwick Bank wind farm due to be completed around 2030 the difficulties will be taking the power to homes and industry. And I didn’t mention that England and Wales has another 20 GW of offshore wind at various stages of planning and construction. With the 30 GW of wind farms already built GB could hit 70 GW of wind power by 2035-40. And our neighbours in Ireland have identified another 25 GW of offshore wind which if developed and worked in conjunction with GB wind farms would make a formidable resource for UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe. The UK already has about 10 GW of interconnectors with Europe over which surplus wind, nuclear and hydro is exchanged The future is bright the future is electrifying.

[domtweed]

The wind farm at Dogger Bank (not to be confused with Guildford) will be one of the largest in the world.

[Birko]

Great stuff. Some people objected due to the fact that they could plainly see them using the Hubble Telescope.
Others objected because they had to move 1000's of people and flood the area, an operation which was only completed 10000 years ago.
Oil companies have complained that it is an awful idea, but have so far failed to give a good reason why.

[robandcheryls]

I loved that, thank you for great editing

[DonLee]

Considering how expensive electricity is in the UK, this wind farm will pay it's cost in no time.

[NovaYung]

When i flew into UK yesterday passing the Channel from france, i saw hundreds and hundreds of wind turbines in the sea from the air, it was a magnificent scene yesterday

[Sacto]

That's great until we find out what happens in the winter when the notorious North Sea storms with their high waves and 160+ km/h winds come by. The wind turbine manufacturers better guarantee these units could survive such fierce storms.

[falafelscobes]

These places are Kingdoms: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Hopefully they stay with a steady monarchy who all like each other and dine together. ❤

[qsmhppb]

Amazing project on UK, but this intermittent wind energy (offshore) need energy storing and this need additional expenses on initial Capex. What will be this CAPEX and what energy cost will be for citizens (not cost but everything included on energy bills).

[wolfgangrenner]

Where are all components produced ? There is a death of european production sites and an replacement with chineses components. Is this also true for this windparc ?

[nknxg]

One thing that has never come true about this renewables revolution is that the promised job creation never happened. In the UK, all the energy companies went cheap cheap and hired Indian, Philipino and Indonesian off shore slave labour to install the turbines and develop the sites, locals see nothing of this so called renewables bonanza. Not many young people got apprenticeships to learn about developing off shore wind farm sites, not many experienced native people got a sniff of a job as they will not work for £1.50 an hour. Also Scotland has lots of start up remewables companies harnessing tidal, wave and wind power and doing ggod work with tax payer funding. Problem is any tech with the slightest promise of further development gets bought up by the likes of Siemens, GE or any of the big corporations and the UK sees none of it and the tax payer sees nothing from the investment they made. Renewables is great for a healthy energy mix, but the greed is ruining it already for everyone else.

[WelshGuitarDude]

6 million homes is less than one tenth of all UK homes. We're never going to be able to go fully renewable.

[rchatte]

Total waste of vast amounts of tax payers money!

[ChrisCrous-bqcf]

I'm surprised you didn't mention how many millions of birds are killed with these installations.

[arkadipanitch]

Most expensive electricity in the world. And turbines are Made in China. So, totally stupid project.

[runedahl]

What a waste of time, space and taxpayers money. Electricity is a commodity that is produced at the same moment it is created. That is not possible with wind energy since it is always dependent of the weather. If there is too much wind there is overproduction and if there is little or no wind the energy has to be brought from an other source. The industry needs stable and predictable energy and that can only be achieved with large generators. Then you are left with hydropower, fossil fuel or nuclear power. If you don’t have one of these you will have extreme price variations, unstable power supply and in general extreme prices of electricity. Your industry will move to countries where they get cheap and reliable energy and all UK is left with is the enormous expenses the taxpayers have to cover for. Good luck with that.

[fernandobanos]

Wasted money, that is why England has expensive energy