🌊 Offshore wind farm

Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 165 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

165
turbines
1320 MW
MW total
8 MW
per turbine

📍 165 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.93751 N · 1.65929 E.

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
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens Gamesa · SG 8.0-167 DD · 165 turbines · 8 MW each · rotor 167 m

Source: Siemens Gamesa, Ørsted order press release, 2018-06, read on 2026-09-15. Corroborated by 5 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Wikipedia, list of offshore wind farms worldwide: 165 Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD, 1,386 MW, 2022.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jan 2015 — Application submitted
  2. 2Aug 2016 — Permission granted
  3. 3Sep 2019 — Under construction
  4. 4Aug 2022 — 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 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.

Nearby

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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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