Moray East

100 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines100
Installed capacity950 MW
Turbine capacity9.5 MW
Tip height204 m
Operator (or applicant)Diamond Green Limited, CTG & Ocean Winds
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV164-9.5

♻️ Project timeline

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

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Project timeline Application submitted August 2012 Permission granted March 2014 Permission expired March 2018 Under construction June 2019 Operational April 2022

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2534.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 34 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 4 years. That works out at 9.5 MW per turbine on average.

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