Beatrice

84 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines84
Installed capacity588 MW
Turbine capacity7 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) / Repsol / CIP
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-7.0-154

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted April 2012 Permission granted March 2014 Permission expired March 2014 Under construction April 2017 Operational August 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2521.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 23 months. Construction to first power took about 28 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2014. The scheme has been operating for about 7 years. That works out at 7 MW per turbine on average.

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