🌊 Offshore wind farm

Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Scheme
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 30 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

30
turbines
108 MW
MW total
3.6 MW
per turbine

📍 30 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.7286 N · 1.22183 E.

Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Scheme

30 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines30
Installed capacity108 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens
Turbine modelSWT-3.6-107
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens · SWT-3.6-107 · 3.6 MW each · hub 75 m · rotor 107 m

Source: Generate Energy, “Offshore Wind — Opportunities in the East of England” (2025), 2025-05, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 3 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.

→ ~203220052010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Mar 2002 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2004 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2009 — Under construction
  4. 4Jul 2009 — Operational

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 2490.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 24 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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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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