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Windmillpark on Dogger Bank ”Forewind”

By Harald Oestensjoe Manager Southern Norway Trawlers Association

Forewind http://www.forewind.co.uk/

• Statoil and Statkraft is very content with huge contract on building a

park of windmills in UK sector on Dogger Bank. They are partners in a consortium together with RWE, Npower and Scottish and Southern Energy PLC (SSE).

• CEO Baard Mikkelsen, Statkraft says that to go for this project is

consistent with their strategy to give the world more clean and renewable

• energy. The growth in this type of energy will come from windpower. On

Dogger Bank we will be able to use our knowledge from our landbased

• windmillparks. In addition we will gain new competance in developing

seabased windpower.

• Statoil sees windpower as a strategic area for windpower as the new

form of energy.

• Margareth Ovrum, pres. of Technology and New Energy in Statoil says:

”Our goal is to mature the projects on Dogger Bank up to the point of making a decision to invest. Hopefully these projects will be profitable and technically realizable. Dogger Bank is a challenge where our competance from the oil and gas business offshore will be of significance. ”

• Both Statoil and Statkraft are previously involved in building out the 315

megawatt windmillpark at Sheringham Shoal in UK waters.

From left: Anne Strømmen Lycke , Statoil ( director windpower), Margareth Øvrum, Statoil ( president) , Bård Mikkelsen, Statkraft ( CEO) og Haakon Alfstad , Statkraft (director windpower)

Windmillarea on Dogger Bank Windmillpark on Dogger Bank

• At 8660 square kilometres, the Dogger Bank zone is not only

the largest of the proposed offshore sites; it is also the farthest from shore (between 125 and 195 kilometres), presenting a number of significant technical challenges.

• Water Depth 18-63 metres (59 to 206 feet).
• Forewind has agreed with The Crown Estate a target installed

capacity of 9GW, though the zone has a potential for approximately 13GW, which equates to around 10 per cent of total UK electricity requirements. If developed it is likely to be the world’s largest offshore wind project.

• The UK target is to have a total of 33GW of installed offshore

wind energy by 2020.

• Investments estimated to 300 billion NOK.

Jan 2009 Dec ember 2009 – January 2010 SEA Environmental Report Published by DECC for Public Consultation The Crown Estate award exclusive Zone Development Agreements Nov 2009 – Feb 2010 June 2009 Policy Document & Post Consultatio n Report Published EN-3 to be Reviewed

Informal Industry Interaction EIA & Public Consultation Applications Made to IPC etc. Approval from IPC Granted R3 Windfarms Built and Installed

2020 EU Target of 40GW Achieved

Round 3 Timeline

Consequences of windmills on Dogger Bank

• For habitats (sandeels, plaice, turbots)
• For the biology
• For the spread of sandeels
• For other species eating sandeels
• For the fisheries
• For the land industry

Fishing and fish on the Dogger Bank

• 3 kind of fishery
• Gill-netters
• Danish seines
• Sandeel trawlers

from both Denmark and Norway and other countries.

• Main fish species
• Turbot
• Plaice
• Sandeel

Plaice Turbot Sandeels

Sandeels fishing grounds North Sea

By DTU aqua

Sandeel LArval drift and recruitment Model SLAM

De vigtigste interregionale transportveje for tobis larver I Nordsøen

Sandeels on Dogger Bank

• Total landings of sandeels

from the North Sea. 1950- 2007

• 1980-2003: About 700000

tons

• 2003-2007: About 300000

tons

• Not because of no fish but

because of not enough vessels!

Special Area for Conservation (SAC)

UK Fishers Value in SAC in 2006

• All species £6,397,264 in 2007 – 15 % of total

first sale value

• All species £5,683,872 in 2006 – 15 % of total

first sale value

Danish fisheries on Dogger Bank

Danish landings from Dogger Bank (2008)

• Catch:

150000 tons of sandeels 1000 tons of plaice 100 tons of turbot

• Value

23 million Euro to the fishermen (6.6 % of the total value from Danish landings) Dogger Bank is especially important for the Sandeels fishery and thereby also for the other species caught by this fleet as sprat, blue whiting and Norway pout.

Norwegian sandeel fisheries on DoggerBank

• The Norwegian sandeel fishery on Dogger

Bank is dependant on size of quota in EU waters.

• In 2009 it was 27.500 tons with an approx.

value of 40 million NOK.

• In earlier years the Norwegians fished much

more.

Fishermen’s strategy

• Primarily to convince Forewind to drop the whole

project.

• Or secondly to convince Forewind to place the

windmills where they are the least troublesome for the fisheries, e. g. in deeper waters at the

• utskirts of the bank.
• To have a close dialogue with Forewind

throughout the whole project on consequences and where to place the windmills.