West of Duddon Sands

108 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines108
Installed capacity389 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish Power Renewables & Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 Project timeline Permission expired September 2000 Application submitted April 2006 Permission granted September 2008 Under construction May 2013 Operational October 2014

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2519.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 29 months. Construction to first power took about 17 months. A planning permission on this site expired in September 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 12 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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