Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord

174 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines174
Installed capacity1218 MW
Turbine capacity7 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted July 2013 Permission granted December 2014 Under construction January 2018 Operational December 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2525.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 17 months. Construction to first power took about 23 months. The scheme has been operating for about 7 years. That works out at 7 MW per turbine on average.

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