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Royal Haskoning surveys Triton Knoll onshore route

By: Tom Russell 23/03/2017 Triton Knoll

General Windfarms

Ecology specialists from Royal Haskoning DHV (RHDHV) will spend the next two weeks on foot surveying vegetation and wildlife habitats at parts of the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm 60km cable corridor.

The work will see two RHDHV ecologists visiting each plot on foot to record semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats. They will classify and record parcels of land based on vegetation presence, in order to fine tune the project’s detailed and robust ecological assessment of the route. This, in turn, will help support the final detailed design of mitigation and restoration works to be implemented as part of the underground cable installation works.

Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm is continuing to build a detailed picture of local environmental conditions along the project’s onshore cable route, with further ecological survey works getting underway this week (w/c Monday 20 March).

Once underway, the installation of the underground export cable will be a huge engineering project supporting local jobs and business opportunities, and the survey results will make an important contribution to the design of the works.

Triton Knoll Onshore Consents Manager Vicky Portwain said: “These surveys will help us better understand the ecology and habitats of the land and environments along the length of the consented onshore cable corridor. The results will complement the information that we already have, and allow us to refine our designs for the installation and management of the onshore electrical system.”

The Triton Knoll offshore wind farm was the largest Round 2 offshore wind farm site to be awarded a licence in 2004 by The Crown Estate. It will be located approximately 32km off the Lincolnshire coast and is currently being developed as a joint venture between Innogy Renewables UK Ltd (innogy) (50%) and Statkraft (50%), with innogy managing the project on behalf of the partnership.

With an anticipated up to 900MW installed export capacity, the wind farm would have the potential to power up to 800,000 UK homes once fully operational.

A Development Consent Order (DCO) for the offshore array was granted by the Secretary of State in July 2013, while consent for the Electrical System was granted in September 2016. There are still a number of key stages for the project to complete, including a successful Final Investment Decision, after which onshore construction could then begin.

For more information, please follow the links provided. You can also view the project, and others worldwide, using our interactive map.

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