Positive
Project advancing - milestone achieved
High Impact
Major milestone or critical setback
Planning consent for Project Erebus, including its offshore export cable corridor and associated transmission assets, was awarded in Welsh waters. With OWC acting as owner’s engineer for Blue Gem Wind (the Simply Blue Energy and Total joint venture), the project secured the first Marine Licence and Section 36 Consent for a floating offshore wind project in Wales, covering the array and the consented offshore export cable corridor between the Erebus array area and landfall at West Angle Bay. The consented corridor allows installation of up to 49 km of 66 kV HVAC subsea export cable(s), which then connect via buried onshore cables and a new substation into the National Grid 132 kV infrastructure at Pembroke.