Walney Extension was the world's largest offshore wind farm
- Location
- Irish Sea off Walney Island, Cumbria (England) · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Project
- Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm
- Investment
- approx. GBP 2bn / approx. EUR 2.27bn (press figure for combined purchase price plus EPC funding share from the 2018 50% stake sale, not an officially stated pure construction-cost figure)
- Status
- Operational
Walney Extension is located about 19 km west of Walney Island off the coast of Cumbria in the Irish Sea and forms the extension phase of the wider Walney Wind Farm complex, with an installed capacity of 659 MW from 87 turbines (40x MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW, 47x Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154). It became operational in September 2018 and was the world's largest offshore wind farm at that time. It is owned by Ørsted (50%) together with Danish pension funds PKA (25%) and PFA (25%), which acquired their stakes from Ørsted in 2018.
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