Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Moray East
Operational950 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 12 April 2023
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 950 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Diamond Green Limited, CTG & Ocean Winds
- Location
- Smith Bank, Moray Firth - 13miles off Lybster, Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- First operating
- 2022
- Turbines
- 100, 204 m to tip
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Timeline
- 28 August 2012 Planning application submitted
- 19 March 2014 Planning permission granted
- 6 June 2019 Construction started
- 1 April 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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