🌊 Offshore wind farm

Race Bank (Phase 1)
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 46 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

46
turbines
289.8 MW
MW total
6.3 MW
per turbine
154 m
tip height

📍 46 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.25171 N · 0.87597 E.

Race Bank (Phase 1)

46 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines46
Installed capacity289.8 MW
Turbine capacity6.3 MW
Tip height154 m
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)/ Macquarie Group
Turbine manufacturerSiemens
Turbine modelSWT-6.0-154
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens · SWT-6.0-154 · 6 MW each · rotor 154 m

Source: Wikipedia, list of offshore wind farms worldwide, 2026, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 2 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Generate Energy, “Offshore Wind — East of England” (2025): 91 SWT-6.0-154, 573.3 MW for the whole wind farm.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20392010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Jan 2009 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jul 2012 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jul 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Jun 2017 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jul 2010, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2515.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 42 months. Construction to first power took about 11 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 6.3 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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