Walney 3

110 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines110
Installed capacity659 MW
Turbine capacity6 MW
Tip height222 m
Operator (or applicant)Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-7.0-154

♻️ Project timeline

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

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted July 2013 Permission granted November 2014 Under construction April 2017 Operational September 2018 Permission expired November 2019

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

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2533.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. Construction to first power took about 17 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 5.99 MW per turbine on average.

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