Perspective - Royal Haskoning in the UK

Grid connections
Onshore and offshore grid connections can be substantial projects in their own right,
with their own complex barriers to consent. Royal HaskoningDHV is a UK market leader
in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of new onshore buried cable systems and
substation infrastructure. We have recently led the EIA studies for the offshore and onshore
transmission system for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm, including 45km of onshore
buried cables and one of Europe’s largest substations. This experience is being carried over
into Round 3, where we are providing both onshore and offshore EIA services to the first
phases of Seagreen’s Firth of Forth and Forewind’s Dogger Bank developments.
The planned Round 3 offshore wind farms will dwarf anything the UK has done before.
Transmission of electricity will occur over greater distances, potentially creating a range
of environmental, engineering and health and safety challenges to be overcome before
construction. Our team of experts on grid connections will assess the environmental,
technical and health and safety implications of burying cables in the seabed, from interarray
to export cables, inter-connecting the devices and running the main export cable back
to the grid connection point onshore.
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Royal HaskoningDHV Perspective UK Wind Energy
Royal HaskoningDHV Perspective UK Wind Energy
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