Race Bank wind farm off Norfolk with 573 MW is operational

Race Bank is located in the North Sea about 27 km north of Blakeney Point (Norfolk) and 28 km east of Chapel St Leonards (Lincolnshire). It has an installed capacity of 573 MW from 91 Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 turbines (6 MW each, 154 m rotor diameter) and became operational in February 2018. Operator is Ørsted, which acquired the project from Centrica in 2013; construction began in 2016 after years of planning as a Round 2 project, requiring clearance of over 40 WWII-era ordnance items along the cable route beforehand.