Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord
Operational1218 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 3 September 2020
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 1218 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
- Location
- Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure
- Planning application
- EN010033
- First operating
- 2019
- Turbines
- 174
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Timeline
- 30 July 2013 Planning application submitted
- 10 December 2014 Planning permission granted
- 26 January 2018 Construction started
- 1 December 2019 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
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