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 manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Permission expired March 2011 Application submitted August 2011 Permission granted March 2013 Under construction April 2018 Operational September 2018

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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