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The Indicative Converter Station location for East Anglia THREE and East Anglia FOUR is influenced by the need to connect the converter stations to the National Grid substation at Bramford. The site boundary (as shown in Figure 2) has been selected such that it would be able to accommodate up to three converter station compounds, which could be used to connect up to 3.6GW of export capacity to the National Grid.
10. The Indicative Converter Station was selected via an iterative process. Initially
EAOW sought to identify a suitable brownfield site on the basis that it may have offered reduced environmental impact. However, it was concluded that there were no suitable brownfield sites which could accommodate the three converter station compounds.
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As a result the area of search was refined to cover land in close proximity to the existing national grid substation at Bramford. Site options were sought that would have the minimum environmental impact and that would be feasible in terms of engineering requirements.
12. More detail on this process can be found in the East Anglia ONE PEI (EAOW, 2012a). The principles for site selection were agreed as being appropriate by Natural England in the Statement of Common Ground agreed for East Anglia ONE in July 2013.
13. The converter station site boundary can be seen in Figure 2.
Evidence Plan
East Anglia THREE & East Anglia FOUR Offshore Windfarms