Blyth Offshore Wind Test Site

5 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines5
Installed capacity41.5 MW
Turbine capacity8.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF Energy Renewables
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted March 2012 Permission granted November 2013 Under construction October 2016 Operational October 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2523.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 20 months. Construction to first power took about 12 months. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 8.3 MW per turbine on average.

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