Thanet Offshore Wind Farm

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Thanet Offshore Wind Farm is a large offshore wind power facility located off the coast of Kent, England, known for being one of the earliest and once the largest operational offshore wind farms in the world.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf offshore wind farm
averageHouseholdsPoweredEstimate over 200000 households
commissioned 2010
connectedTo National Grid
surface form: National Grid (Great Britain)
constructionBegan 2008
constructionContractor Babcock & Brown (initial developer, later Vattenfall)
country United Kingdom
distanceFromShore approximately 11 km
electricalCapacity 300 MW
exportCableLandfall Pegwell Bay area
foundationType monopile foundations
fuelType renewable
gridConnectionAgreementWith National Grid
surface form: National Grid Electricity Transmission
gridConnectionPoint Richborough
gridVoltageLevel 132 kV
hasExportCables 2 subsea export cables
hasPlannedExpansion Thanet Offshore Wind Farm self-linksurface differs
surface form: Thanet Extension Offshore Wind Farm
isPartOf UK Round 2 offshore wind projects
locatedIn North Sea
locatedInBodyOfWater Thames Estuary
surface form: Thames Estuary region
locatedOffCoastOf England
Kent
nearbyTown Ramsgate
Thanet
notableFor being one of the earliest large-scale offshore wind farms
being the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm at its opening in 2010
numberOfTurbines 100
officialOpeningDate 2010-09-23
openedBy Chris Huhne
operator Vattenfall
ownedBy Vattenfall
planningConsentGranted 2007
precededByAsLargestOffshoreWindFarm Horns Rev 2
primaryEnergySource wind
projectDeveloper Vattenfall
projectPhase Thanet Phase 1
purpose electricity generation
region South East England
sector renewable energy
siteArea approximately 35 km²
status operational
substationLocation onshore at Richborough
succeededByAsLargestOffshoreWindFarm Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm
turbineManufacturer Vestas Wind Systems
surface form: Vestas
turbineModel Vestas V90-3.0 MW
wasWorldsLargestOffshoreWindFarmAtCommissioning true
waterDepthRange 20–25 m

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Thames Estuary hasOffshoreWindFarm Thanet Offshore Wind Farm
London Array locatedNear Thanet Offshore Wind Farm
this entity surface form: Thanet Wind Farm
Thanet Offshore Wind Farm hasPlannedExpansion Thanet Offshore Wind Farm self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Thanet Extension Offshore Wind Farm
Vattenfall notableProject Thanet Offshore Wind Farm
this entity surface form: Thanet Offshore Wind Farm (stake)