🌊 Offshore wind farm

Beatrice
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 84 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

84
turbines
588 MW
MW total
7 MW
per turbine

📍 84 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.25693 N · 2.88479 W.

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
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens Gamesa · SWT-7.0-154 · 84 turbines · 7 MW each · rotor 154 m

Source: Tethys (PNNL, U.S. DOE), 2025-07-22, read on 2026-09-14. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Wikipedia, wind farm article (dedicated page): 84 Siemens Gamesa 7 MW turbines, built from 2017 to 2019, 13 km off the Moray Firth.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~2042201520202025today1234
  1. 1Apr 2012 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2014 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2017 — Under construction
  4. 4Aug 2019 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Mar 2014, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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