Hywind Scotland Pilot Park (Hywind 2) Demonstrator

5 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines5
Installed capacity30 MW
Turbine capacity6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Statoil
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-6.0-154

♻️ Project timeline

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

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted March 2015 Permission granted October 2015 Under construction April 2017 Permission expired October 2017 Operational October 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2479.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 7 months. Construction to first power took about 6 months. A planning permission on this site expired in October 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 6 MW per turbine on average.

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