Thanet
Thanet is a 300 MW offshore wind farm in South East England, operated by Vattenfall. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Offshore
- South East
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 300 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- Vattenfall
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 51.4299, 1.6334
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 Thanet compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 300 MW station would generate roughly 999 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 369,870 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 South East All run by VattenfallNearby generating sites
- Westwood Β· 9.18 MW solar farm20.0 km
- Manston Β· 9.83 MW solar farm20.4 km
- Manston Thorne Β· 6.2 MW solar farm22.3 km
- London Array Β· 630 MW offshore wind farm23.3 km
- Knowlton Β· 11.5 MW solar farm33.6 km
- Kentish Flats Extension Β· 49.5 MW offshore wind farm37.2 km
- Woodlands Farm Β· 13.2 MW solar farm37.4 km
- Kentish Flats Β· 90 MW offshore wind farm37.6 km
Also operated by Vattenfall
Vattenfall operates 10 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Pen Y Cymoedd Β· onshore wind farm228 MW
- Ormonde Β· offshore wind farm150 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
- ThanetΒ
- Developer / operator
- Vattenfall
- Planning authority
- DECC (S36)
- Application submitted
- 8 November 2005
- Permission granted
- 18 December 2006
- Construction started
- 1 November 2009
- Began operating
- 16 September 2010
- Capacity in planning record
- 300 MW
- Address
- 11km off North Foreland Kent, Offshore
- REPD reference
- 2499
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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