🌊 Offshore wind farm

Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 60 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

60
turbines
882 MW
MW total
14.7 MW
per turbine
230 m
tip height

📍 60 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.08657 N · 3.03061 W.

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
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens Gamesa · SG 14-222 DD · 60 turbines · 14.7 MW each · rotor 222 m

Source: Wikipedia, list of offshore wind farms, 2026, read on 2026-09-15. Corroborated by 1 further source. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Wikipedia, list of offshore wind farms worldwide: 60 Siemens Gamesa 14-222 DD, 882 MW, 2025.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20472020202220242026today1234
  1. 1Jul 2018 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jun 2019 — Permission granted
  3. 3May 2022 — Under construction
  4. 4Apr 2025 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jun 2044, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, 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 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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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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