🌊 Offshore wind farm

European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) (Aberdeen Bay - Demonstration site)
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 11 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

11
turbines
96.8 MW
MW total
8.8 MW
per turbine

📍 11 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.22287 N · 1.99543 W.

European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) (Aberdeen Bay - Demonstration site)

11 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines11
Installed capacity96.8 MW
Turbine capacity8.8 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Vattenfall
Turbine manufacturerMHI Vestas
Turbine modelV164-8.4 (9) and V164-8.8 (2)
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

MHI Vestas · V164-8.4 (9) and V164-8.8 (2) · 11 turbines · rotor 164 m

Source: Vestas, Aberdeen Bay inauguration press release, 2018-09, read on 2026-09-14. Corroborated by 5 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Aug 2011 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2013 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2018 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2018 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Mar 2011, 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 2505.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 5 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 8.8 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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