The highest point of the offshore wind turbine (the blade tip as it rotates) could be up to 403m above the sea (measured to Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT)).
The wind turbines will be more than 33 miles (54km) offshore, therefore only the upper parts of the wind turbines be visible from the shore on a few days of the year. In addition, due to there being existing projects in between Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind and the shore, when viewed from most locations along the coast, the Outer Dowsing Offshore wind farm turbines will be hidden behind the other wind farms.
The maximum design envelope has been presented in the DCO application which constitutes an 80m wide temporary construction corridor with a 60m wide cable easement.
No new overhead lines (pylons) will be built as part of the project; the cables will instead be buried underground from the landfall at Wolla Bank to the substation in Surfleet Marsh.
Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind will transmit the power from the offshore wind farm via underground cables. These will meet land at Wolla Bank and continue underground to Surfleet Marsh to the Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind substation. The project will then connect into a new National Grid substation at Weston Marsh that will connect into existing overhead lines.
It is currently anticipated that construction will take up to 36 months
