🌊 Offshore wind farm

Gunfleet Sands - (Demo) Extension
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 2 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

2
turbines
12 MW
MW total
6 MW
per turbine

📍 2 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.7054 N · 1.1936 E.

Gunfleet Sands - (Demo) Extension

2 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines2
Installed capacity12 MW
Turbine capacity6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens
Turbine modelSWT-6.0-120
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens · SWT-6.0-120 · 2 turbines · 6 MW each · rotor 120 m

Source: Generate Energy, “Offshore Wind — Opportunities in the East of England” (2025), 2025-05, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 2 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.

→ ~2035201520202025today123
  1. 1Apr 2012 — Permission granted
  2. 2May 2012 — Under construction
  3. 3Apr 2013 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2488.

What the register tells us

Construction to first power took about 11 months. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 6 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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