Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea
Operational1320 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 1 September 2022
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 1320 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
- Location
- The Wash, Sutton Bridge, Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure
- Planning application
- EN010053
- First operating
- 2022
- Turbines
- 165
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Timeline
- 30 January 2015 Planning application submitted
- 16 August 2016 Planning permission granted
- 1 September 2019 Construction started
- 31 August 2022 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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