The UK authorities has determined to increase the choice deadline for the proposed 1.2 GW Rampion 2 offshore wind extension challenge, stating that further info is required.
Below the Planning Act 2008, the Secretary of State was required to achieve a call on the Rampion 2 offshore wind extension challenge by 6 February 2025. Nevertheless, Michael Shanks, Parliamentary Below-Secretary of State for Power, determined to grant an extension and set a brand new deadline of 4 April 2025, to permit time to request additional info.
The brand new deadline for the appliance doesn’t have an effect on the choice on whether or not to approve or reject the event consent, in response to Shanks.
In August 2024, the UK Planning Inspectorate accomplished the examination interval following public session and overview of RWE’s utility for the event consent order (DCO).
After this, a three-month interval began to submit a suggestion to Power Secretary Ed Miliband, who had till 6 February to resolve whether or not to approve or reject the DCO.
Rampion 2 is being developed as an extension to the present Rampion offshore wind farm, off the Sussex coast.
If consented, the challenge might transfer into building in 2026 or early 2027, and the wind farm would then be totally operational earlier than the top of the last decade.
The preliminary plan for Rampion 2 was for the challenge to have 116 wind generators, however following statutory session held in 2021 and 2022 and suggestions on visible results and transport from key stakeholders, the developer lowered the dimensions of the array web site and the variety of generators to 90.
The challenge would hook up with the nationwide electrical energy transmission community by underground cables that may run from a landfall at Climping, West Sussex, to the present Nationwide Grid electrical energy substation at Bolney in Mid-Sussex by way of the brand new devoted Rampion 2 ‘satellite tv for pc’ substation at Oakendene.
Rampion 2 has an settlement for 1,200 MW to connect with the Bolney substation in 2028/2029, in response to RWE.
Rampion 2 is a three way partnership between RWE Renewables, the bulk shareholder (50.1 per cent), and its companions, a Macquarie-led consortium (25 per cent), and Enbridge (24.9 per cent).
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