🌊 Offshore wind farm

Race Bank (Phase 2)
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 45 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

45
turbines
283.5 MW
MW total
6.3 MW
per turbine
154 m
tip height

📍 45 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.30053 N · 0.80759 E.

Race Bank (Phase 2)

45 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines45
Installed capacity283.5 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.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jan 2009 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jul 2016 — Under construction
  3. 3Feb 2018 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 9 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 6501.

What the register tells us

Construction to first power took about 19 months. The scheme has been operating for about 8 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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