Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project

60 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines60
Installed capacity882 MW
Turbine capacity14.7 MW
Tip height230 m
Operator (or applicant)EDPR
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSG 14-222 DD

♻️ Project timeline

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

2017 2020 2023 2026 2029 2032 2035 2038 2041 2044 Project timeline Application submitted July 2018 Permission granted June 2019 Under construction May 2022 Operational April 2025 Permission expired June 2044

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 6158.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. Construction to first power took about 35 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2044. The scheme has been operating for about 1 year. That works out at 14.7 MW per turbine on average.

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