Neart na Gaoithe

54 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines54
Installed capacity450 MW
Turbine capacity8 MW
Tip height208 m
Operator (or applicant)EDF Renewables Power
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSG 8.0-167 DD

♻️ 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 2024 2025 2026 Project timeline Application submitted July 2012 Permission granted May 2017 Under construction January 2020 Operational July 2025

From application to operation, this scheme took about 13 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2522.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 58 months. Construction to first power took about 66 months. The scheme has been operating for about 1 year. That works out at 8.33 MW per turbine on average.

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