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Forewind has signed connection agreements with the UK's National Grid for three further 1GW grid connections, adding to the 3GW signed since Dogger Bank was awarded in early-2010.

 

The development means Forewind can now proceed with the development of a total of 6GW of offshore wind farm generation.

Forewind signed a 1GW grid agreement to connect its first project into the Creyke Beck substation, near Cottingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in March 2010, and the new grid connections means a total of 2GW could be developed at the site as the first stage of the project.

Forewind head of electrical systems, David Flood, said, 'Both organisations have worked extremely hard on this agreement, which demonstrates Forewind's ambitions and the appetite of our parent companies to take these projects forward. We can now proceed with determining the optimum onshore cable routes and coastal cable landfall points to connect a total of six offshore wind farms to the electricity network.'

'Securing further capacity close to our existing connection agreements offers the opportunity to reduce the impact of the projects, which could provide clean electricity to millions of homes.'

Forewind is a consortium of owners - RWE, SSE, Statkraft and Statoil - that have joined forces to develop the round three zone.