Dogger Bank A and B (formerly Creyke Beck A and B) is an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, in English waters: 2,400 MW, 190 turbines, each 13 MW and 260 m tall. The Secretary of State granted its development consent order (DCO), the consent for a nationally significant infrastructure project, on 17 February 2015, and since 1 July 2021 the REPD record lists it as under construction. According to the project, A and B together with phase C add up to 3.6 GW (1.2 GW per phase), and the owners call the future complex the world's largest offshore wind farm. The distance to shore depends on how you measure it. The site point in the REPD lies 212 km from the nearest postcode on land (NE67 5BJ, Northumberland), while the project's own data give 130–190 km from the north-east coast of England at the closest points. The figures do not contradict each other: the registry stores a single nominal point somewhere inside the site, and the edge of the turbine field nearest the shore is considerably closer.
Consent, construction and a stale record
The application was submitted on 29 August 2013, still under the name Creyke Beck. The examination was carried out by the Planning Inspectorate (case EN010021), and after 77 weeks the Secretary of State granted the DCO. How this process works and how many such decisions there have been is shown on the Energy Secretary decisions page. The applicants listed in the registry are SSE and Equinor (formerly Statoil and Forewind); according to the project, the ownership shares are SSE 40%, Equinor 40%, Vårgrønn 20%. The project received its Contract for Difference in round AR3. The “under construction” stage has stood in the record since 1 July 2021, but the record itself was last updated on 12 April 2022. The registry is compiled from open sources, and a row changes only when the compilers learn of a new event; nothing has been noted against this record for more than four years. So in the July 2026 extract the status may be out of date; decisions and events after the extract are not shown on the site.
Neighbouring projects with similar names
Several different records sit under the name Dogger Bank in the registry. Dogger Bank C (the former Teesside A) is recorded separately: 1,200 MW, under construction. Sofia (the former Teesside B) does not belong to the A, B, C complex, although it stands in the same part of the sea. Dogger Bank South East and Dogger Bank South West are also independent projects, each at 1,500 MW, both approved. All offshore wind farms with their stages are collected on the offshore wind page.