East Anglia Two

East Anglia Two is an offshore wind farm by ScottishPower Renewables under development in the North Sea.

The wind farm will have an installed capacity of 900 MW. As part of the East Anglia Hub Project, the wind farm pushes the renewable energy drive of the UK significantly.

East Anglia Two is part of the East Anglia Zone and will make up 5% of the UK’s offshore wind capacity. The East Anglia Two offshore wind farm has 75 turbines rated at 12 megawatts each covering the 218 square kilometer farm. The East Anglia Two wind farm is rated to a 900 megawatts capacity, enough to power 800,000 homes

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Nationally Significant Project

East Anglia Two Project is a Nationally Significant Project, which makes it eligible for a development consent order. The other offshore wind farms in East Anglia Hub–East Anglia One North and East Anglia Three–are also considered Nationally Significant Projects.

The East Anglia Hub Project will have a total installed capacity of 3.1 GW. This capacity will compose 6.2% of the 2030 goal of the UK to reach 50 GW of offshore wind capacity.

Ownership of East Anglia Two

ScottishPower Renewables, the UK subsidiary of the Iberdrola Group, owns 100% equity in the project.

Location of East Anglia Two

East Anglia Two is in the Southern North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. From Lowestoft, the project is 37 kilometers farther. The farm is also 32 kilometers from the shoreline of Southwold.

Map of the East Anglia Hub, showing the Great Yarmouth construction and marshalling base, the Lowestoft operations and maintenance base, and the four phases of the East Anglia Wind Farm

The wind farm is 218 square kilometers large across its turbine installation area. It is nearer to the shoreline than East Anglia One North which is to its NorthEast. The cables will landfall at Thorpeness, Suffolk County.

Associated Infrastructure of the Project

Platform links and subsea cables will connect up to four offshore platforms in the wind farm. The cable landfall is at Thorpeness, Suffolk.

The six single-core onshore cables reach the onshore substation after 9 kilometers from the landfall area. East Anglia Two with East Anglia One North will share the National Grid Substation.

The substation will transmit the electricity produced to the national electricity grid. The substation will have a Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) and Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS). The project will use cable sealing end compounds to update and modify the overhead lines of the National Grid Substation.

Wind Power Capacity

The East Anglia Array is an offshore wind farm with four phases. The first phase is East Anglia One. This is 43 kilometers from shore and is made of 102 wind turbines that can produce up to 714 megawatts of power combined. This is enough to power about 630,000 homes. The second phase is East Anglia One North, which is 36 kilometers from shore. This phase will generate up to 800 megawatts, enough to power about 710,000 homes. East Anglia Two is 31 kilometers from shore and will also generage about 800 megawatts to power 710,000 homes. Lastly, East Anglia Three will be 69 kilometers from shore and will generate up to 1,400 megawatts, and can power up to 1.2 million homes!

The project will have 900 MW of installed capacity which can power up to 800,000 UK households. Seventy-five wind turbines complete the wind farm.

Schedule of the Project

The National Infrastructure Planning had the examination closed in 2021, according to the National Infrastructure Planning website. In December 2021, the Secretary of State requested additional information from the Suffolk County Council, Marine Management Organisation, and other interested parties.

The examining authority recommended the project for a development consent order, which the developer received in March 2022 from the Planning Inspectorate.

The project will start construction in 2023 and will end in 2026. The start of commercial operations is also estimated to be in late 2026.

East Anglia Hub

ScottishPower Renewables will develop East Anglia Two Offshore Wind Farm’s last farm in the East Anglia Hub. The project is under development with two offshore wind farms in the East Anglia Zone–East Anglia One North and East Anglia Three.

The three offshore wind farms in the East Anglia Hub can power up to 2.7 million UK households. The local planning authority permitted up to 263 turbines in the 3-part project.