🌊 Offshore wind farm

Neart na Gaoithe
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 54 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

54
turbines
450 MW
MW total
8 MW
per turbine
208 m
tip height

📍 54 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 56.26542 N · 2.2463 W.

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
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens Gamesa · SG 8.0-167 DD · 54 turbines · 8 MW each · rotor 167 m

Source: Hagland Shipbrokers, monthly market report (January 2025), 2025-01, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 2 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jul 2012 — Application submitted
  2. 2May 2017 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jan 2020 — Under construction
  4. 4Jul 2025 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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