Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Scroby Sands
Operational60 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 29 February 2016
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 60 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- E.ON UK
- Location
- 3km NE Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- First operating
- 2004
- Turbines
- 30
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Timeline
- 5 March 2001 Planning application submitted
- 1 December 2002 Planning permission granted
- 1 October 2003 Construction started
- 1 March 2004 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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