Gunfleet Sands II

18 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines18
Installed capacity64.8 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.6-107

♻️ Project timeline

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

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Project timeline Application submitted June 2007 Permission granted February 2008 Under construction April 2009 Operational July 2009

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2489.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 8 months. Construction to first power took about 3 months. The scheme has been operating for about 17 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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