Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea

165 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines165
Installed capacity1320 MW
Turbine capacity8 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSG 8.0-167 DD

♻️ Project timeline

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

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Project timeline Application submitted January 2015 Permission granted August 2016 Under construction September 2019 Operational August 2022

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 2502.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 35 months. The scheme has been operating for about 4 years. That works out at 8 MW per turbine on average.

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