Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited (DOW), a subsidiary of Warwick Energy Limited, has applied for offshore consents to construct and operate its proposed Dudgeon offshore wind farm.

Consents have been requested from both The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

It is hoped that, subject to all consents being granted, the wind farm may commence generation by late 2013. The project would include up to 168 wind turbines and it could generate up to 560 MW.

Warwick Energy’s wind farm project at Dudgeon is one of 15 such projects that were awarded licenses by the Crown Estate as a national second Round of offshore wind projects.

The turbines at the proposed Dudgeon site would be positioned a minimum of 32 km due north of Cromer off the coast of Norfolk.

Accompanying the consent application is a full Environmental Statement (ES) regarding the offshore elements of the proposed development. The works covered by the applications submitted include the wind turbines and their foundations at the offshore site, the cables linking the turbines to the offshore substations, the offshore substations themselves and the cables bringing the power ashore, including the onshore transition pits, where the offshore cables will be joined to the onshore cables.

DOW will submit further planning requests later in 2009 to the relevant Local Planning Authorities for the onshore elements of this project together with its own ES.

Warwick Energy Limited is a British developer of a range of energy projects and has previously been responsible for the development of the 90 MW Barrow offshore wind farm (in operation since 2006) and the 300 MW Thanet offshore wind farm (currently under construction).