The project, which if built would feed power to over two million homes in the UK, would follow the Danish developer's 1.2GW Hornsea 1 wind farm, recently given final investment decision with start-up set for 2020, and Hornsea 2, now awaiting a greenlight from the secretary of state.
"Hornsea 3 is a huge infrastructure project which, if built out to full capacity, would be the world's largest offshore wind farm and potentially twice the size of Hornsea 1," states Dong's UK country chairman Brent Cheshire.
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