UK energy secretary Greg Clark will decide later this week whether to grant or refuse electrical infrastructure consent for RWE and Statkraft’s 900MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the east of England.
The Planning Inspectorate finished the examination of the offshore and onshore grid link on 3 March and sent the recommendation to the government in June.
It is believed Clarke will announce the decision this Friday.
Infrastructure proposed includes onshore and offshore cabling, an intermediate electrical compound to provide voltage stability and a substation near the grid connection point for the £4bn project. Power will come ashore in east Lincolnshire and connect at Bicker Fen.
RWE is expected to bid Triton into an upcoming Contracts for Difference allocation round if consent is secured for the transmission works.
The Round 2 project was awarded a development consent order for the offshore array in July 2013.
Statkraft took a 50% stake in the £4bn project in February 2015.
Image: RWE’s Gwynt y Mor wind farm (RWE)
Triton braced for grid decision
UK energy secretary to make transmission consent call at 900MW project
By EBS