Round 1 and 2 Extensions Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm

Round 1 and 2 Extensions
Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm
Meeting with the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
Bristol, 25th January 2011

Summary
• Project Overview
• Timeline
• EIA Surveys progress
• Consultation progress

Burbo Bank Extension – Final Site awarded by TCE (April 2010)
•Total Area: 40 km2
•Capacity: 234 MW (indicative)
•Key Issues:
•Visual Impact (7-12 km)
•Shipping
•Birds (Red-Throated Divers,
Common Scoters)

Export Cable Route – Grid Connection Options
• Birkenhead*
• Deeside (Connah's Quay)*
• Gwynt-Y-Mor (St Asaph,
Denbighshire)*
• Contract with National Grid to be
signed 28th January (indicatively)
* indicative cable routes, subject to modification once final choice
for one of the grid connection options is made

Consents & Consenting Authorities
Offshore Wind Farm Elements
Site
Turbines
Interarray Cable
Offshore Substation
Consents
DCO
Consenting
Authorities
IPC (with MMO)
IPC (with MMO)
IPC (with MMO)
IPC (with MMO)
Integral
Part of the
Development
Offshore Export
Cable
(in English Waters)
DCO + deemed
FEPA/Marine
Licence
IPC (with MMO)
Offshore Export
Cable
(in Welsh Waters,
up to the MHWM)
DCO
+
FEPA/Marine
Licence
WAG (with MCU) /
IPC to provide input
through the MMO
Associated
Part of the
Development
Onshore Cable
(in Welsh Territory,
from the MLWM)
Onshore Substation
Planning
Permission
Local Planning
Authority(ies)
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* indicative cable route, substation and
turbine position, subject to modification

Indicative Timeline –
Burbo Bank Extension

EIA Surveys (underway and planned – indicative dates)
• Geophysical Surveys: October to November 2010
• Shipping Surveys & Navigation Risk Assessment: surveys: 1 st survey
summer 2011, 2 nd survey winter 2011; hazard workshop Q3 2011, report:
December 2011
• Gas Platform buffers/Helicopter/Aviation impact Assessment: Q3 2011
• Benthic & Intertidal Surveys: April to May 2011
• Birds & Marine Mammals Surveys: Aerial (Nov 2010-Oct 2011), Boat (Apr
2011-Sept 2011)
• Onshore EIA: Tenders received and being assessed; undertaken late
February until August 2011 (depending on grid contract signature date)
• Fisheries Surveys: April and October 2011
• MetOcean & Coastal Processes Survey: April to June 2011
• Seascape & Landscape Visual Impact Assessment: Tender released early
Feb 2011; undertaken April/May 2011
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S42 Consultation
• Informal Consultations held in the past 6 months with several statutory
and non statutory consultees:
- Discussions on their Scoping Opinions
- EIA survey methodologies & scope of works circulated to relevant
stakeholders
- Key communication pathways established
• Formal Consultations to likely start February 2011 – after grid contract is
indicatively signed 28 th January and Section 46 notification to IPC is made
- Preliminary Environmental Information document being drafted
(summarised Scoping Report including timetable of EIA surveys
upcoming/undertaken and results if any)
- Draft EIA Chapters to be sent out as soon as surveys and analysis
completed.

S47 Consultation - Local Authorities
• Individual meetings held in November 2010 to
discuss their Scoping Opinions and introduce the
Statement of Community Consultation process
• Collective meeting scheduled on February 17 th
- To agree on the SoCC contents, methodologies and
consultation tools;
- to discuss collaboration with DONG and amongst
themselves
- Framework agreements to support local authorities
as a group (e.g. Planning Performance Agreements)
• SoCC likely to be published end March 2011

Project Team
Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm
Ferdinando Giammichele - Project Manager
Stuart Livesey - Consents Manager
Emily Marshall - Project Assistant
fergi@dongenergy.co.uk
stliv@dongenergy.co.uk
emars@dongenergy.co.uk
DONG Energy Power (UK) Ltd.
33 Grosvenor Place
Belgravia
London
SW1X 7HY
Web: www.burbobankextension.co.uk
E-mail: burbobankextension@dongenergy.co.uk