Planning Consent Submitted

Centrica Renewable Energy (with development partners AMEC and Renewable Energy Systems / RES Group) submitted the Section 36 application under the Electricity Act 1989 to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in 2009 for the Race Bank offshore wind farm, originally proposed at up to 620 MW capacity, located on the Race Bank sandbank approximately 27 km off the north Norfolk coast and 28 km off the Lincolnshire coast in the southern North Sea. The supporting Environmental Statement Non-Technical Summary was produced by Centrica in January 2009. Race Bank was developed under The Crown Estate's December 2003 Round 2 lease award. Section 36 consent was granted by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on 5 July 2012, authorising up to 580 MW of generating capacity (with the Docking Shoal application, also part of the Greater Wash Round 2 zone, refused on the same day primarily over ornithological cumulative impacts on Sandwich tern populations). Centrica subsequently sold the project to DONG Energy (Ørsted) in 2014, who delivered it as a 573 MW, 91-turbine project. Commercial operation was achieved in February 2018.