Paragraph 1 Design parametersI1

England and Wales

(1)

The total number of wind turbine generators comprised in the authorised project must not exceed 231 and a total rotor swept area of 8.8 square kilometres.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), each wind turbine generator forming part of the authorised project must not—

(a)

exceed a height of 325 metres when measured from LAT to the tip of the vertical blade;

(b)

exceed a rotor diameter of 265 metres;

(c)

be less than 41.8 metres from LAT to the lowest point of the rotating blade; and

(d)

be less than one kilometre from the nearest wind turbine generator in all directions.

(3)

The reference in sub-paragraph 1(2)(d) to the location of a wind turbine generator is a reference to the centre point of that wind turbine generator.

(4)

Wind turbine generator foundation structures forming part of the authorised scheme must be one of the following foundation options: monopile foundation, mono suction bucket foundation, jacket foundation or gravity base foundation.

(5)

No wind turbine generator—

(a)

jacket foundation employing pin piles forming part of the authorised project shall have a pin pile diameter of greater than four metres; and

(b)

monopile foundation forming part of the authorised project shall have a diameter greater than 15 metres.

(6)

The total seabed footprint area for wind turbine generator foundations must not exceed—

(a)

435,660 square metres excluding scour protection; and

(b)

1,623,182 square metres including scour protection.

(7)

The volume of scour protection material for wind turbine generator foundations must not exceed 2,375,044 cubic metres.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 11 Pt. 2 para. 1 in force at 22.1.2021, see art. 1

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: Preamble: bracket omitted (21.5.2021) by virtue of The Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm (Correction) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/599), art. 1(2), Sch.