Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, 32 km north of Cromer off the Norfolk coast, is a 402 MW offshore wind project owned by Equinor, Masdar, and Statkraft. Costing about £1.5 billion, it occupies a flat seabed between the Cromer Knoll sandbanks and is among the UK’s most distant offshore sites. Commissioned in October 2017, it generates around 1.7 TWh annually—enough to power 410,000 homes—with a strong 48% capacity factor.

Initially developed by Warwick Energy, the scheme was approved for 560 MW in 2012, then downsized to 402 MW after Statoil and Statkraft acquired it later that year. In 2014, Siemens supplied 67 six-megawatt turbines, each with 154 m rotors and 110 m hub heights. That same year, Masdar bought a 35% stake, forming the current ownership structure.

Construction began in 2015, with cable and substation work at Necton, followed by offshore foundation and turbine installation through 2016–17. Fully operational by late 2017, Dudgeon became a key milestone in the UK’s offshore wind expansion, delivering large-scale clean energy from deep-water sites to the National Grid.