Sheringham Shoal

88 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines88
Installed capacity317 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Equinor
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.6-107

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted May 2006 Permission granted August 2008 Under construction June 2009 Permission expired August 2010 Operational October 2012

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2512.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 27 months. Construction to first power took about 40 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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