Ormonde
Ormonde is a 150 MW offshore wind farm in North West England, operated by Vattenfall. 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
- 150 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- Vattenfall
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 54.0889, -3.4386
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 Ormonde compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 150 MW station would generate roughly 499 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 184,930 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 VattenfallNearby generating sites
- Walney 01 Β· 368 MW offshore wind farm7.5 km
- Walney 02 Β· 368 MW offshore wind farm7.5 km
- Walney 03 Β· 330 MW offshore wind farm10.9 km
- West of Duddon Sands Β· 389 MW offshore wind farm11.6 km
- Barrow Β· 90 MW offshore wind farm14.2 km
- Haverigg III Β· 3.4 MW onshore wind farm14.2 km
- Walney 04 Β· 329 MW offshore wind farm14.3 km
- Kirkby Moor Β· 4.8 MW onshore wind farm27.2 km
Also operated by Vattenfall
Vattenfall operates 10 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Thanet Β· offshore wind farm300 MW
- Pen Y Cymoedd Β· onshore wind farm228 MW
- Aberdeen Β· offshore wind farm96.8 MW
- Kentish Flats Β· offshore wind farm90 MW
- Ray Β· onshore wind farm54.4 MW
- Kentish Flats Extension Β· offshore wind farm49.5 MW
- Edinbane Β· onshore wind farm41.4 MW
- Clashindarroch Β· onshore wind farm36.9 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
- Ormonde Offshore
- Developer / operator
- Vattenfall
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- Application submitted
- 12 July 2005
- Permission granted
- 4 September 2008
- Construction started
- 1 June 2010
- Began operating
- 22 February 2012
- Capacity in planning record
- 150 MW
- Address
- 10km off Barrow on Furness, Heysham, Offshore
- REPD reference
- 2509
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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