The North Falls and Five Estuaries offshore wind projects, both extensions to existing offshore wind farms, have signed what is called a "good neighbour agreement" with regard to their connections to the UK grid.

The agreement enables closer liaison, information sharing and joint planning, and is a result of feedback gathered through public consultation, which has shown a preference for more cooperation and coordination between the two projects on the landfall location, onshore corridor route, substation location and stakeholder engagement.

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Under the now-signed “good neighbour agreement”, each project has reduced the maximum number of export cable circuits it will include from four to two, which will result in the reduction of impacts both onshore and offshore, particularly during the construction phase, according to the North Falls joint venture.

Furthermore, the combined construction corridor is now proposed to be 90 metres wide, rather than the previous width of up to 250 metres.

North Falls also recently decided on the location of its landfall construction compound, which is now planned to be closer to Five Estuaries announced preferred landfall.

The Five Estuaries offshore wind project has also recently selected its preferred substation search area which now overlaps with North Falls’ substation search area.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As we get more wind farms I hope we see more of this - saves money and lessens the environmental impact. Everyone wins.