Offshore wind · United Kingdom
Sheringham Shoal
Operational317 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 5 November 2019
The site
- Technology
- Offshore wind
- Capacity
- 317 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Equinor
- Location
- between 17 and 22 kilometres off the Norfolk coast, north of the seaside town of Sheringham., Offshore, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- First operating
- 2012
- Turbines
- 88
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Timeline
- 30 May 2006 Planning application submitted
- 7 August 2008 Planning permission granted
- 30 June 2009 Construction started
- 29 October 2012 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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