🌊 Offshore wind farm

Humber Gateway A
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 73 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

73
turbines
219 MW
MW total
3 MW
per turbine

📍 73 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.64387 N · 0.29284 E.

Humber Gateway A

73 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines73
Installed capacity219 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)E.ON Humber Wind Ltd/ Balfour Beatty Investments and Equitix.
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV112-3.0
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V112-3.0 · 73 turbines · 3 MW each · hub 80 m · rotor 112 m

Source: Wikipedia, wind farm article, 2026, 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.

→ ~20372010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Apr 2008 — Application submitted
  2. 2Feb 2011 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2013 — Under construction
  4. 4May 2015 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Feb 2010, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

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 2544.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 34 months. Construction to first power took about 21 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 3 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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