By the time of the 21 April 2026 Public Information Day, ScottishPower Renewables reported that onshore works for East Anglia TWO and East Anglia ONE North had commenced along the shared route between the Thorpeness landfall and Friston, including fencing, soil stripping, construction consolidation site installation, and haul road construction, with trenching, duct installation, and HDD due to follow.
On 21 April 2026, ScottishPower Renewables hosted a public information day at Thorpeness Country Club focused on ongoing and upcoming works for the East Anglia TWO and East Anglia ONE North offshore wind farms, including construction of the temporary haul road, horizontal directional drilling at landfall and the Hundred River, traffic management, and ecology, with all display materials subsequently published in the East Anglia TWO document library.
On 27 March 2026, Windtech International reported that Smulders HSM, part of Eiffage Métal, had started construction of the offshore substation topside and jacket foundation for the East Anglia TWO transmission system, under its 2025 EPCI contract with ScottishPower Renewables. Fabrication of the high-voltage topside is underway at Smulders HSM’s Stormpolder yard in the Netherlands, while construction of the jacket foundation has commenced at the company’s yard in Newcastle, UK.
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East Anglia TWO is a ScottishPower Renewables (Iberdrola) offshore wind farm project in the southern North Sea, located roughly 32 km off the Suffolk coast near Southwold. Planned at roughly 960 MW of capacity, the project forms the final phase of SPR’s East Anglia cluster and is intended to make...
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Following consultation on a request from Scottish Power Renewables, the UK Marine Management Organisation (MMO) determined to vary the Deemed Marine Licences in Schedules 13 and 14 of the East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm Order 2022, issuing formal Notices of Variation as set out in the 24 March 2026 project update.
ScottishPower Renewables held a drop-in Public Information Day at Friston Village Hall on 26 February 2026, focused on ongoing and upcoming works for the construction of the platforms for the East Anglia TWO and East Anglia ONE North substations. Members of the public could meet the project team and contractors, ask questions about the scheduled programme of works, and access information on related activities including National Grid’s Kiln Lane substation platform works, traffic management, landscaping and ecology.
East Anglia TWO Limited received a Section 105 Notice from the UK Secretary of State under the Energy Act 2004, requiring the preparation of a high-level Decommissioning Programme for the East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm. The notice obliges the developer to consult prescribed bodies and the public on the draft programme, which will be made available for 28 days from 20 August 2025 before submission to the Secretary of State.
On 6 October 2025, ScottishPower Renewables submitted a request to the UK Marine Management Organisation to vary the Deemed Marine Licences contained in Schedules 13 and 14 of the East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm Order 2022, effectively applying for a marine licence variation covering the project’s offshore works, including transmission-related activities.
Hellenic Cables received a contract from Seaway7 to engineer, manufacture, test and supply approximately 165 km of 66 kV inter‑array cables and accessories for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm, with production to take place at its Corinth submarine cable plant starting in 2026.
ScottishPower Renewables commenced onshore construction works for East Anglia TWO with the installation of underground duct banks for substation cabling on the B1069 Snape Road near Knodishall, Suffolk. A temporary road closure was in place across three weekends starting 20 September 2025. Prior enabling works including ecological mitigation, archaeology investigations, and highway access improvements had been underway since mid-2024.
Statutory notice states that East Anglia TWO Limited would make the draft Decommissioning Programme publicly available for 28 days from 20 August 2025 (consultation period ending 17 September 2025) in response to a Section 105 Notice under the Energy Act 2004.
ScottishPower Renewables plans to begin installation of accesses 9 and 10 at Snape Road, Knodishall on 17 July 2025 as part of the East Anglia TWO and ONE North projects, representing access road and site preparation works along the onshore cable route. The activity is listed in the project’s activity schedule as pre-enabling and construction work with an ongoing end date.
ScottishPower Renewables awarded an EPCIC contract in April 2025 to HSM Offshore Energy for the East Anglia Two offshore substation topside (about 5,100 tonnes) and its 3,700‑tonne jacket foundation, with construction to start in Q4 2025 and offshore jacket and topside installation planned for 2027.
ScottishPower Renewables awarded Taylor Woodrow a contract to deliver civil engineering works for the East Anglia TWO onshore substation at Friston, Suffolk, including highway improvements, landscaping and screening, with works due to commence in 2025.
ScottishPower Renewables press release confirms Taylor Woodrow awarded the civil engineering works contract for East Anglia TWO’s onshore substation near Friston; SPR states onshore substation works will commence in 2025.
On 4 December 2024, ScottishPower Renewables awarded Nexans a contract to supply and install approximately 100km of 275kV high‑voltage subsea export cables and 55km of onshore cables, manufactured at Nexans’ Halden (Norway) and Charleroi (Belgium) plants, to connect the East Anglia TWO offshore substation to the UK electricity grid in Suffolk.
ScottishPower Renewables committed to the GBP 4 billion East Anglia TWO project in November 2024, signing a CfD contract with LCCC and a turbine supply agreement worth more than GBP 1 billion with Siemens Gamesa for 64 SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbines. ScottishPower CEO Keith Anderson described this as getting projects off the blocks, and Iberdrola simultaneously doubled its UK investment commitment from GBP 12 billion to GBP 24 billion for 2024-2028. No formal FID announcement was made but the signing of binding multi-billion pound supply contracts constitutes de facto final investment decision.
Hitachi Energy was selected in November 2024 to supply high‑voltage direct current (HVDC) technology to support grid integration of power from the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm.
Seaway7 secured a contract with ScottishPower Renewables in November 2024 to transport and install the inter‑array cables for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm, later confirmed in 2025 when Hellenic Cables announced its supply contract referencing Seaway7’s installation scope.
On 28 November 2024, Hitachi Energy announced it will provide onshore and offshore grid connection equipment and power quality solutions to ScottishPower Renewables for the 960 MW East Anglia TWO HVAC offshore wind farm. The scope includes Grid-eXpand Offshore solutions for the offshore platform, EconiQ gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) for the onshore substation, and SVC Light STATCOM for reactive power compensation. This is an HVAC grid connection, not HVDC.
ScottishPower Renewables formalised a turbine supply agreement worth more than £1 billion with Siemens Gamesa for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm, under which Siemens Gamesa will deliver 64 SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbines (960 MW total) with 115‑metre blades manufactured at its Hull factory.
Cadeler signed firm contracts with ScottishPower Renewables for the transportation and installation of 64 offshore wind turbine generators and their foundations for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm, using one of Cadeler’s newbuild A‑class vessels alongside an O‑class vessel, with offshore works scheduled to start in 2027.
ScottishPower Renewables awarded Sif Netherlands and the Sif–Smulders joint venture a contract to supply 64 monopile foundations and 64 transition pieces for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm, with production scheduled to start in the second half of 2026 and load‑out from Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 facility.
Archaeological investigations on private land near the East Anglia TWO onshore substation site, covering the cable route and substation area, began in October 2024 and are ongoing, marking the start of archaeological survey works for the onshore transmission route.
East Anglia TWO was successful in the UK Government Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6 (AR6) in September 2024 at a strike price of GBP 58.87/MWh. ScottishPower Renewables subsequently signed contracts with the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) on 15 November 2024, paving the way for the delivery of more than 1,000 MW of new clean generating capacity.
Through its UK subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola secured a UK Contracts for Difference (CfD) award for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm in Allocation Round 6 in September 2024. The CfD contract, announced by Iberdrola and referenced in subsequent supplier and contractor releases, underpins revenue for the 960–963 MW project in the southern North Sea, enabling it to supply clean electricity to around one million homes as part of the East Anglia Hub.
ScottishPower Renewables commenced ecological mitigation and compensation habitat creation along the onshore cable route and substation area for the East Anglia TWO and ONE North projects in July 2024, as part of pre-enabling works with ongoing management throughout the project duration.
In April 2024, Taylor Woodrow was appointed to carry out onshore substation works at the Suffolk site for East Anglia TWO, undertaking civil engineering and construction activities for the onshore substation that connects the export cable system into the National Grid.
In December 2023, Wood Thilsted joined the East Anglia TWO project to deliver detailed engineering and design services across the East Anglia Hub, focusing on optimising offshore infrastructure that includes key transmission assets.
In November 2023, HSM Offshore Energy was appointed to design and construct the offshore substation for the East Anglia TWO project, providing the main offshore electrical platform that will collect turbine output and feed it into the export cable system to shore.
Nexans was awarded a contract in October 2023 to manufacture and deliver the high‑voltage export cables that will connect the East Anglia TWO offshore substation to the onshore grid connection point in Suffolk.
The East Anglia TWO and ONE North project activity schedule records that non-intrusive survey works at the landfall location began on 25 September 2023 and are ongoing, marking the start of site investigation surveys for the export cable landfall area.
The Secretary of State approved the Development Consent Order application for East Anglia TWO on 31 March 2022, jointly with East Anglia ONE North. The DCO authorises ScottishPower Renewables to construct and operate an offshore wind farm of up to 960 MW capacity in the southern North Sea approximately 32.6 km off the Suffolk coast, including up to 75 turbines, offshore platforms, export cables and onshore substation.
East Anglia TWO Limited submitted an application to the Secretary of State under Section 37 of the UK Planning Act 2008 for a Development Consent Order (DCO) covering the East Anglia TWO Offshore Wind Farm and all associated electrical transmission infrastructure. The DCO application, dated October 2019, includes offshore export cables, landfall works, up to six onshore power cables and fibre/DTS cables, a new onshore substation near Grove Wood, Friston, and new National Grid infrastructure including a substation, cable sealing end compounds and 400 kV overhead line realignment works needed to connect the project to the national electricity grid. The Cable Statement was prepared pursuant to APFP Regulation 6(1)(b)(i) as part of this submission, detailing the route and installation methods for the cables linking the generating station to the onshore grid.
East Anglia TWO Limited completed the Environmental Impact Assessment for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm and submitted the Environmental Statement alongside the Development Consent Order (DCO) application to the Planning Inspectorate on 25 October 2019, providing the environmental information required under the EIA Regulations 2017.
ScottishPower Renewables, via East Anglia TWO Limited, submitted the Development Consent Order (DCO) application for the East Anglia Two offshore wind farm to the Planning Inspectorate on 25 October 2019, initiating formal examination of the nationally significant infrastructure project.
On 25 September 2019, East Anglia TWO Limited finalised its Cable Statement as part of the Development Consent Order application, defining a HVAC electrical solution and setting out the detailed offshore export cable corridor from the offshore electrical platforms to landfall north of Thorpeness, the approximately 9km onshore cable route to a new onshore substation near Grove Wood, Friston, and the associated National Grid substation and overhead line realignment works, including proposed installation methods such as HDD at landfall and buried onshore cable trenches.
East Anglia TWO Limited submitted its Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) for the East Anglia TWO project for stakeholder consultation in February 2019 under Section 42 of the Planning Act 2008, inviting feedback from stakeholders, communities, and individuals to inform the final design and Environmental Statement.
On 21 December 2017, ScottishPower Renewables (UK) Limited, the parent of East Anglia TWO Limited, and National Grid Electricity Transmission plc entered into a variation of the Bilateral Connection Agreement and Construction Agreement for the East Anglia TWO project, securing a firm grid connection point at a new 400kV National Grid substation at Grove Wood near Friston, in or around Leiston. This agreement confirms the transmission connection arrangements for exporting power from the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm via its export cables and onshore substation into the national electricity transmission system.
ScottishPower Renewables began public engagement on the East Anglia TWO project in 2017, conducting a series of public consultation activities that continued until early 2019 ahead of submitting the Development Consent Order application.
In 2010, ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall Wind Power Limited formed the 50:50 joint venture East Anglia Offshore Wind (EAOW), which successfully secured from The Crown Estate the Round 3 development rights for the East Anglia Zone in the southern North Sea, within which the future East Anglia TWO project is located.
In January 2010, The Crown Estate awarded seabed development rights for the East Anglia Zone under Round 3 leasing to the East Anglia Offshore Wind joint venture between ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall. These zone-wide rights underpin the development of subsequent projects in the former East Anglia Zone, including the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm in the southern North Sea off Suffolk.
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