Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Greater Gabbard Wind Farm
Operational504 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 2 October 2019
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 504 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Airtricity / Fluor Ltd
- Location
- Near the Suffolk Coast (26km out to sea), Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- First operating
- 2012
- Turbines
- 140
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Timeline
- 17 October 2005 Planning application submitted
- 20 February 2007 Planning permission granted
- 1 July 2009 Construction started
- 7 September 2012 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 54 incidents at offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
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