🌊 Offshore wind farm

North Hoyle
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 30 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

30
turbines
60 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 30 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.41801 N · 3.44829 W.

North Hoyle

30 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines30
Installed capacity60 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat (formerly Npower Renewables)
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV80-2.0
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♻️ Project timeline

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

~2026 reached20052010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Apr 2001 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jul 2002 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2003 — Under construction
  4. 4Dec 2003 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2494.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 15 months. Construction to first power took about 8 months. The scheme has been operating for about 23 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2 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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