Thanet

100 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines100
Installed capacity300 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Vattenfall
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV90-3.0

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 Scheme REPD 2499 Application submitted November 2005 Permission granted December 2006 Under construction November 2009 Operational September 2010 Permission expired December 2018 Scheme REPD 6299 Application submitted June 2018 Refused June 2020

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 6299, Application Refused): 34 turbines · 10 MW each · 210 m tip height · applicant Vattenfall. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2499.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 13 months. Construction to first power took about 10 months. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 3 MW per turbine on average.

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