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 Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-6.0-154

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted January 2009 Permission expired July 2010 Permission granted July 2012 Under construction July 2016 Operational June 2017

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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