Round 1 and 2 Extensions Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Round 1 and 2 Extensions Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm Meeting with the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) Bristol, 25th January 2011

Summary • Project Overview • Timeline • EIA Surveys progress • Consultation progress

Burbo Bank Extension – Final Site awarded by TCE (April 2010) • Total Area: 40 km2 • Capacity: 234 MW (indicative) • Key Issues: • Visual Impact (7-12 km) • Shipping • Birds (Red-Throated Divers, Common Scoters)

Export Cable Route – Grid Connection Options • Birkenhead * • Deeside (Connah's Quay)* • Gwynt-Y-Mor (St Asaph, Denbighshire)* • Contract with National Grid to be signed 28th January (indicatively) * indicative cable routes, subject to modification once final choice for one of the grid connection options is made

Consents & Consenting Authorities Consenting Offshore Wind Farm Elements Consents Authorities Site IPC (with MMO) Turbines IPC (with MMO) DCO Interarray Cable IPC (with MMO) Offshore Substation IPC (with MMO) Offshore Export DCO + deemed Integral Cable IPC (with MMO) FEPA/Marine Part of the (in English Waters) Licence Development DCO Offshore Export WAG (with MCU) / Cable + IPC to provide input (in Welsh Waters, FEPA/Marine through the MMO up to the MHWM) Licence Onshore Cable Associated (in Welsh Territory, Planning Local Planning Part of the from the MLWM) Permission Authority(ies) Development Onshore Substation 5

* indicative cable route, substation and turbine position, subject to modification

Indicative Timeline – Burbo Bank Extension

EIA Surveys (underway and planned – indicative dates)  Geophysical Surveys: October to November 2010   Shipping Surveys & Navigation Risk Assessment: surveys: 1 st survey summer 2011, 2 nd survey winter 2011; hazard workshop Q3 2011, report: December 2011  Gas Platform buffers/Helicopter/Aviation impact Assessment: Q3 2011  Benthic & Intertidal Surveys: April to May 2011  Birds & Marine Mammals Surveys: Aerial (Nov 2010-Oct 2011), Boat (Apr 2011-Sept 2011)  Onshore EIA: Tenders received and being assessed; undertaken late February until August 2011 (depending on grid contract signature date)  Fisheries Surveys: April and October 2011  MetOcean & Coastal Processes Survey: April to June 2011  Seascape & Landscape Visual Impact Assessment: Tender released early Feb 2011; undertaken April/May 2011 8

S42 Consultation  Informal Consultations held in the past 6 months with several statutory and non statutory consultees: - Discussions on their Scoping Opinions - EIA survey methodologies & scope of works circulated to relevant stakeholders - Key communication pathways established  Formal Consultations to likely start February 2011 – after grid contract is indicatively signed 28 th January and Section 46 notification to IPC is made - Preliminary Environmental Information document being drafted (summarised Scoping Report including timetable of EIA surveys upcoming/undertaken and results if any) - Draft EIA Chapters to be sent out as soon as surveys and analysis completed.

S47 Consultation - Local Authorities  Individual meetings held in November 2010 to discuss their Scoping Opinions and introduce the Statement of Community Consultation process  Collective meeting scheduled on February 17 th - To agree on the SoCC contents, methodologies and consultation tools; - to discuss collaboration with DONG and amongst themselves - Framework agreements to support local authorities as a group (e.g. Planning Performance Agreements)  SoCC likely to be published end March 2011

Project Team Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm Ferdinando Giammichele - Project Manager fergi@dongenergy.co.uk Stuart Livesey - Consents Manager stliv@dongenergy.co.uk Emily Marshall - Project Assistant emars@dongenergy.co.uk DONG Energy Power (UK) Ltd. 33 Grosvenor Place Belgravia London SW1X 7HY Web: www.burbobankextension.co.uk E-mail: burbobankextension@dongenergy.co.uk