SSE Renewables and Equinor have renamed their trio of projects in the Dogger Bank totalling 3600MW.
The developers’ 1.2GW Creyke Beck A, 1.2GW Creyke Beck B and 1.2GW Teesside A projects have been rebranded as Dogger Bank A, B and C respectively.
The former names were ascribed to the projects by their previous owners, the Forewind Consortium, which won the right to develop the sites in 2010.
The previous names of “Teesside” and “Creyke Beck” reflect which onshore substations the projects feed into.
In a post on social media site Twitter the developers said the new names better reflect the area in which the wind farms are due to be built.
“Dogger Bank will be built in an area of the North Sea which used to be land, connecting Europe and Great Britain, known as Doggerland. To recognise the link to this historic area the three phases of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm will now be known as Dogger Bank A, B and C,” they said.
Dogger Bank A is due online in 2023 with Dogger Bank B to follow in 2024 and C in 2025.
RWE Renewables renamed a fourth project in the zone – the 1.4GW Tessside A – as Sophia after acuiring the project when the Forewind Consortium disbanded and carved up its seabed rights in summer 2017.