{"id":1004265335,"date":"2018-09-18T00:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004265335"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:46:20","slug":"worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anca Gagiuc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004265338\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/walney-extension-orsted\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Walney Extension, Orsted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg?w=800\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1004265338 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg?resize=768,595 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The world\u2019s largest operational offshore wind farm recently opened. The 659-megawatt park is located in the Irish Sea, off the coast of England and is capable of powering nearly 600,000 U.K. homes.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Walney Extension, the facility is a shared-ownership project between Danish \u00d8rsted (50 percent) and its partners\u2014Danish pension funds PKA and PFA (25 percent each). Construction was coordinated from \u00d8rsted\u2019s West Coast Hub at the Port of Barrow, which will now become home to the project\u2019s operations and maintenance team. This hub services three further \u00d8rsted offshore wind farms: Barrow, Walney and West of Duddon Sands.<\/p>\n<h2>Technical specs<\/h2>\n<p>Waleny Extension\u2014covering about 55 square miles, an area equal to about 20,000 soccer fields\u2014is the first project to use turbine technology from two different manufacturers: 40 MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines with a rotor diameter of 154 meters, height from seal level to blade tip of 617 feet (188 meters) and weigh of 28 tons per blade; and 47 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines with a rotor diameter of 210 feet (164 meters), height from sea level to blade tip of 640 feet (195 meters) and weigh of 34 tons per blade. More than 124 miles (200km) of cables were used to connect the turbines offshore to the national grid onshore.<\/p>\n<p>With this project, \u00d8rsted\u2019s total capacity operating out of Barrow rose to 1.5 gigawatts. The ongoing operations and maintenance activities will support more than 250 direct jobs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Europe is a big player in the offshore wind sector, home to more than 4,000 offshore wind turbines across 11 countries. Some of the most innovative parks were announced or began commercial operation last year, including Hywind Scotland\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-first-floating-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operations\/\">world\u2019s first floating wind farm<\/a>, developed by Norwegian state-owned Statoil.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of \u00d8rsted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d8rsted and two Danish pension funds\u2014PKA and PFA\u2014share ownership of Walney Extension, the 659-megawatt project located off the coast of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004265338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21748,16,21742,21786,21787],"tags":[42059,35421,37138,42062],"class_list":["post-1004265335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial","category-international","category-latest","category-sustainability","category-technology","tag-orsted","tag-siemens-wind-power","tag-vestas-wind-systems","tag-walney-extension"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00d8rsted and two Danish pension funds\u2014PKA and PFA\u2014share ownership of Walney Extension, the 659-megawatt project located off the coast of England.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-18T08:24:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-08T16:46:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anca Gagiuc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/\",\"name\":\"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-18T08:24:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-08T16:46:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/340a1a5e8e7dd137bd91ca1dd3a2e9d7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":620},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Commercial Property Executive\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/340a1a5e8e7dd137bd91ca1dd3a2e9d7\",\"name\":\"Anca Gagiuc\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3faafbc9e42cee6d04189129d2ee35dc7818b52bae9848e065f3b86af1df47e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3faafbc9e42cee6d04189129d2ee35dc7818b52bae9848e065f3b86af1df47e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Anca Gagiuc\"},\"description\":\"Anca Gagiuc brings more than a decade of experience within the real estate industry. She is a senior associate editor with Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News who also writes monthly multifamily reports at Yardi Matrix. Contact Anca at anca.gagiuc@cpe-mhn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/author\/anca-gagiuc\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation - Commercial Property Executive","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation","og_description":"\u00d8rsted and two Danish pension funds\u2014PKA and PFA\u2014share ownership of Walney Extension, the 659-megawatt project located off the coast of England.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/","og_site_name":"Commercial Property Executive","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive","article_published_time":"2018-09-18T08:24:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-08T16:46:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":620,"url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anca Gagiuc","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cpexecutive","twitter_site":"@cpexecutive","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/","name":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation - Commercial Property Executive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg","datePublished":"2018-09-18T08:24:41+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-08T16:46:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/340a1a5e8e7dd137bd91ca1dd3a2e9d7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg","width":800,"height":620},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-begins-operation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/","name":"Commercial Property Executive","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/340a1a5e8e7dd137bd91ca1dd3a2e9d7","name":"Anca Gagiuc","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3faafbc9e42cee6d04189129d2ee35dc7818b52bae9848e065f3b86af1df47e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3faafbc9e42cee6d04189129d2ee35dc7818b52bae9848e065f3b86af1df47e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Anca Gagiuc"},"description":"Anca Gagiuc brings more than a decade of experience within the real estate industry. She is a senior associate editor with Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News who also writes monthly multifamily reports at Yardi Matrix. Contact Anca at anca.gagiuc@cpe-mhn.com","url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/author\/anca-gagiuc\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/09\/Walney-Extension-Orsted.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004265335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004265335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004265335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004265524,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004265335\/revisions\/1004265524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004265338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004265335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004265335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004265335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}