Greater Gabbard Wind Farm

140 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines140
Installed capacity504 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Airtricity / Fluor Ltd
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.6-107

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted October 2005 Permission granted February 2007 Under construction July 2009 Operational September 2012

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 2510.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. Construction to first power took about 38 months. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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