🌊 Offshore wind farm

Blyth Offshore Wind Test Site
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 5 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

5
turbines
41.5 MW
MW total
8.3 MW
per turbine

📍 5 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.13094 N · 1.40192 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~2040201520202025today1234
  1. 1Mar 2012 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2013 — Permission granted
  3. 3Oct 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Oct 2017 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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