Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm opts for Great Yarmouth for O&M

Nov 25, 2013

Dudgeon Offshore Wind has chosen to go further with Great Yarmouth as the preferred harbour location for the operation and maintenance activities for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.

The offshore wind farm is owned by two Norwegian companies, Statoil and Statkraft, with Statoil as the manager for both the construction and the operational phase.

The team chose to go ahead with this decision on the basis of flexibility offered considering the range of concepts under consideration. Also, the choice was made considering the need and to accommodate the changes anticipated in vessel solutions as technology develops during the 25-30 years lifetime of the wind farm.

Operations and maintenance of the wind farm will be performed by technicians taken to site either by smaller vessels on a daily basis or using a larger ship staying on the site for weeks.

So far, Dudgeon is the wind farm which is located furthest from the UK east coast, highlighted the entity. The financial investment decision for the 400 MW wind farm is planned for third quarter 2014.

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