Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Scheme
Operational108 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 1 May 2018
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 108 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
- Location
- Gunfleet Sands 4 miles offshore from Holland-on-Sea Nr Clacton-on-Sea Essex, Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- First operating
- 2009
- Turbines
- 30
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Timeline
- 1 March 2002 Planning application submitted
- 1 March 2004 Planning permission granted
- 1 April 2009 Construction started
- 24 July 2009 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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