Located off the United Kingdom‘s Yorkshire coast in the North Sea, the Hornsea 2 Offshore Wind Farm is the world’s largest installed wind farm and it just became fully operational.
Made up of 165 wind turbines, the 1.3 gigawatts (GW) project can power roughly 1.4 million homes with clean, renewable and low-cost energy. Together with its sister project Hornsea 1, the wind farms will be able to provide energy for 2.5 million homes.
The UK Government is aiming to have a total capacity of 50 GW of offshore wind in operation by 2030. As such, the 2.8 GW project Hornsea 3 is already in the works.
Ørsted, the developer of Hornsea 1 and 2, currently operates 13 offshore wind farms in the UK, which is enough to meet the needs of 7 million homes.
“The UK is truly a world leader in offshore wind and the completion of Hornsea 2 is a tremendous milestone for the offshore wind industry, not just in the UK but globally,” says Duncan Clark, Head of Region UK at Ørsted. “Current global events highlight more than ever the importance of landmark renewable energy projects like Hornsea 2, helping the UK increase the security and resilience of our energy supply and drive down costs for consumers by reducing our dependence on expensive fossil fuels.”
