Barrow
Barrow is a 90 MW offshore wind farm in North West England, operated by Orsted. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Offshore
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 90 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- Orsted
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 53.9915, -3.2983
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Barrow compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 90 MW station would generate roughly 300 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 110,960 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in North West All run by OrstedNearby generating sites
- Walney 04 Β· 329 MW offshore wind farm9.6 km
- West of Duddon Sands Β· 389 MW offshore wind farm10.7 km
- Ormonde Β· 150 MW offshore wind farm14.2 km
- Walney 01 Β· 368 MW offshore wind farm15.2 km
- Walney 02 Β· 368 MW offshore wind farm15.2 km
- Walney 03 Β· 330 MW offshore wind farm22.5 km
- Haverigg III Β· 3.4 MW onshore wind farm23.3 km
- Heysham 1 Β· 1,060 MW nuclear power station27.0 km
Also operated by Orsted
Orsted operates 16 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Hornsea 02 Β· offshore wind farm1,386 MW
- Hornsea 01 Β· offshore wind farm1,218 MW
- Race Bank Β· offshore wind farm573 MW
- West of Duddon Sands Β· offshore wind farm389 MW
- Walney 01 Β· offshore wind farm368 MW
- Walney 02 Β· offshore wind farm368 MW
- Walney 03 Β· offshore wind farm330 MW
- Walney 04 Β· offshore wind farm329 MW
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- BarrowΒ
- Developer / operator
- Orsted (formerly Dong Energy)
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- Application submitted
- 10 May 2002
- Permission granted
- 12 March 2003
- Construction started
- 1 May 2005
- Began operating
- 1 April 2006
- Capacity in planning record
- 90 MW
- Address
- 7km Walney Island, near Barrow-in-Furness, Offshore
- REPD reference
- 2546
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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