Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms: development consent order, Planning Act 2008
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North Falls Offshore Wind Farm: development consent order, Planning Act 2008
The Secretary of State granted a development consent order for North Falls, a ~1 GW offshore wind farm of up to 57 turbines roughly 40km off the East Anglia coast. Consent covers construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning under the Planning Act 2008. This clears the principal planning barrier for a project led by North Falls Offshore Wind Farm Limited (an SSE Renewables / RWE joint venture vehicle).
A binary availability constraint has been lifted: the project can now be built and connected, which dominates any continuous price consideration. Consent is necessary but not sufficient: the project still needs a CfD allocation round award and a grid connection date to reach financial close, and the consented capacity adds to the East Anglia transmission load that is already constrained.
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Decision by the Secretary of State on an application for the construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of an offshore wind farm including up to 57 wind turbines and generating capacity of approximately 1 GW , under the Planning Act 2008. The wind farm is located approximately 40km off the East Anglia coastline in the southern North Sea
Date of decision:
14 May 2026
Company/location:
North Falls Offshore Wind Farm Limited Windmill Hill Business Park Whitehill Way Swindon Wiltshire SN5 6PB
Type of project:
Development consent order for an offshore wind farm under the Planning Act 2008.
Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms: development consent order, Planning Act 2008
DESNZ has granted development consent under the Planning Act 2008 for RWE's two Dogger Bank South offshore wind farms, each up to 1.5 GW, for a combined 3 GW across up to 200 turbines. The arrays sit 100 km (West) and 122 km (East) from shore in the North Sea, with onshore export cables and converter stations connecting to the National Grid.
3 GW of consented offshore capacity is a binary unlock: without DCO, nothing gets built; with it, the project moves to the next gating constraints (grid connection, supply chain, CfD strike price). The consent shifts the bottleneck onto transmission build-out and AR-round economics, which are now the binding constraints on whether this capacity actually delivers power before 2030.
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Decision on an application for 2 offshore wind farms by RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (West) Limited and RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (East) Limited located within the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea, under the Planning Act 2008.
The application is for the construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of 2 offshore generating stations with a capacity of up to 1.5 gigawatts each and a combined maximum number of 200 turbines, with associated onshore export cables, converter stations and onward connection to the National Grid.
The closest point to the coast from the proposed array areas would be 100 kilometres (km) for Dogger Bank South (DBS) West and 122km from DBS East.
Date of decision
14 May 2026
Company/location:
RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (West) Limited RWE Renewables UK Dogger Bank South (East) Limited Windmill Hill Business Park Whitehill Way Swindon Wiltshire SN5 6PB
Type of project
Development consent order for an offshore wind farm under the Planning Act 2008.
Summary
DESNZ: North Falls Offshore Wind Farm: development consent order, Planning Act 2008; Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms: development consent order, Planning Act 2008