EngineeringCapacity (MW)
Largest offshore wind farm in the world
1,386 MW
- Record holder
- Hornsea 2
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What to remember
Some 120 km off the east coast of England, in the North Sea, the Hornsea project has been built in phases. The second, Hornsea 2, has an installed capacity of 1,386 MW, making it the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
The first phase, Hornsea One, led the way. Construction started in January 2018, the first turbines fed the UK grid in February 2019 and the whole farm was commissioned in December 2019. At 1,218 MW, it was the largest offshore wind farm in the world on completion. In 2022, Hornsea 2 overtook it. The full project is planned to reach up to 6 GW.
For scale, the largest power generating facility ever built is the Three Gorges Dam in China, at 22,500 MW from 32 Francis turbines.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of largest power stations” (revision used 1376729313). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Parabel GmbH, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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