Moray East Offshore Wind Farm

900 MW Capacity
3 BM Units
OperationalOffshore Wind

Moray East Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm located in the outer Moray Firth off the coast of Scotland. It is located adjacent to the Moray West Wind Farm, both of which are just south of the Beatrice Wind Farm. The wind farm is around 50 km (30 mi) north of the Moray coast, and 22 km (14 mi) from the coast of Caithness.

The wind farm was consented in 2014 and construction began in 2019, The first power was exported in June 2021 and the farm reached full power output in April 2022.

The wind farm includes 100 Vestas V164-9.5 MW turbines for a total generating capacity of 950 MW. These have a 164 m (538 ft) diameter rotor, with a hub height of 105 m (344 ft) and a tip height of 187 m (614 ft).

The wind farm includes three offshore substations and uses three 220 kV AC export cables to transmit generated power to the national grid, connected via a new substation at New Deer. The cable landfall location is at Inverboyndie bay, west of Banff, Aberdeenshire, and the cables were pulled through ducts which extend 1 km (0.6 mi) offshore to minimise environmental impacts. The export cables are 86 km (53 mi) long, with 52 km (32 mi) offshore and 34 km (21 mi) onshore. The array cables for the wind farm are 66 kV.

The operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the wind farm is located in Fraserburgh Harbour. This includes an O&M building—with control room, offices, and workshops—plus berthing facilities and storage areas.

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Moray East Offshore Wind Farm
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