East Anglia 1 (EA 1)

102 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines102
Installed capacity714 MW
Turbine capacity7 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish Power Renewables
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 2021 Project timeline Application submitted November 2012 Permission granted June 2014 Under construction May 2018 Operational July 2020

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2524.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 26 months. The scheme has been operating for about 6 years. That works out at 7 MW per turbine on average.

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