{"id":132878,"date":"2021-12-22T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/worlds-largest-operating-offshore-wind-farm-generates-first-power"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:24:03","slug":"worlds-largest-operating-offshore-wind-farm-generates-first-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/worlds-largest-operating-offshore-wind-farm-generates-first-power","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest operating offshore wind farm generates first power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-operating-offshore-wind-farm-generates-first-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danish energy firm Orsted has announced that its Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm generated its first power, representing a significant milestone in the facility\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>When fully operational, Hornsea 2\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/wind-turbine\/\">wind turbines<\/a> will be capable of generating 1.32 GW of clean electricity \u2013 taking the title of \u2018world\u2019s largest operating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/starkraft-kincardine-worlds-largest-floating-offshore-wind-farm\/21281\/\">offshore wind farm<\/a>\u2018from its sibling project, Hornsea 1. Together, the two projects will be capable of providing enough power for well over 2.3 million homes.<\/p>\n<p>Located 89 km off the UK\u2019s east coast, the Hornsea 2 achieved its first power after its offshore substation (OSS), the world\u2019s largest offshore AC substation, and reactive compensation station (RCS), were installed in late October 2021. Since that time, \u00d8rsted and its partner companies have been working hard to commission and energize the wind farm in preparation for its anticipated operational date next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish energy firm Orsted has announced that its Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm generated its first power, representing a significant milestone in the facility\u2019s development. When fully operational, Hornsea 2\u2019s wind turbines will be capable of generating 1.32 GW of clean electricity \u2013 taking the title of \u2018world\u2019s largest operating offshore wind farm\u2018from its sibling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}