🌊 Offshore wind farm

Walney 3
Offshore

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 110 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

110
turbines
659 MW
MW total
6 MW
per turbine
222 m
tip height

📍 93 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 54.09794 N · 3.72238 W.

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 manufacturerMHI Vestas and Siemens Gamesa
Turbine modelV164-8.25 (40, West phase) and SWT-7.0-154 (47, East phase)
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

MHI Vestas and Siemens Gamesa · V164-8.25 (40, West phase) and SWT-7.0-154 (47, East phase) · rotor 164 m

Source: Windpower Monthly, wind farm commissioning, 2019-02, read on 2026-09-15. Corroborated by 4 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

✓ Independently confirmed on 2026-09-19 by Wikipedia, list of UK offshore wind farms: 87 turbines, Siemens SWT-7.0-154 and MHI Vestas V164-8.25, 659 MW, September 2018 — confirms the wind farm is MIXED.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jul 2013 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2014 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2017 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2018 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Nov 2019, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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