The first phase of a project to build one of the world’s largest wind farms in UK waters has been pushed back to the second half of next year.
Dogger Bank A was due for completion during the six months to the end of September.
SSE, the FTSE 100 energy group, has blamed stormy weather for further delays to the development, which had initially been expected to be finished this year.
However, “project returns are not expected to be materially impacted”, the company said.
The Dogger Bank development zone will be between 125km and 290km off the east coast of Yorkshire in the North Sea.
The company said it had reached completion on the 443-megawatt Viking onshore wind farm, the Shetland subsea link, which will connect the Scottish islands to the British transmission network for the first time, and the Slough Multifuel energy-from-waste power station.
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