If built, the project will comprise up to 400 wind turbines across two offshore wind generating stations, each with an installed capacity of up to 1.2GW.
Dogger Bank Teesside A and B will be one of UK’s largest power generators, equal to Dogger Bank Creyke Beck and second only to the 3.9GW Drax coal-fired station in North Yorkshire.
In February, the government granted planning consent to the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck array, also comprising two 1.2GW projects with a total of 400 wind turbines.
The Crown Estate’s head of offshore wind Huub den Rooijen said: “The scale of the Dogger Bank projects offers a significant opportunity to continue to drive down costs, create high value jobs and support the UK’s transition to a low carbon energy supply.”
Energy minister Lord Bourne said that, because of Government support, the UK is the “world leader” in offshore wind energy.
“As we build the Northern Powerhouse, we want local communities to reap the benefits of investment and green jobs from low-carbon developments like Dogger Bank offshore wind project,” he added.
Forewind is a collaboration between energy firms SSE, RWE, Statkraft and Statoil, and has the objective to achieve consent for an agreed target installed capacity of 7.2GW of offshore windfarm projects at Dogger Bank by 2020.
This is equivalent to nearly 8 per cent of the UK’s projected electricity requirements. If fully developed, it is likely to be the world’s largest offshore wind project.