Humber Gateway
Located 8km east of Spurn Point, East Yorkshire.
Status
Operationallifecycle stage
Ownership
Location
United KingdomNorth Sea
Technology
Capacity
219 MW ◆
Turbines
73 × 3 MW ◆
Model
Vestas V112 3-0 ◆
Foundation
Monopile ◆
Site & conditions
Site rights
Seabed rights held ∴
Origination
Crown Estate Round 2 · 2003 ·
Water depth
15–15 m ◆
Distance from shore
8 km ◆
Wind speed
9.5 m/s @ 100 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Certificate ◆
Grid
Secured · 2015 ◆
Connection
Onshore substation at Salt End (Saltend), East Yorkshire; … ◆
Schedule
FID
Taken · date not recorded ∴
COD
2015-Q3 ◆
Project timeline & ownership verified milestones on the spine · ownership from Hafrok’s transactions record
Origination · 2003-12
Crown Estate Round 2
- Awarded to
- E.ON / RWE
- Basis
- seabed award
From the auction results — the round that created the project.
Merger · 2018-03
E.ON → RWE 100%
- Stake
- 100%
- Consideration
- not disclosed
- Announced
- 2018-03
- Closed
- 2019-10
- Project stage
- operational
Humber Gateway transferred from E.ON to RWE as part of the E.ON/RWE/innogy corporate restructuring. Not an arm's-length transaction — no cash consideration attributable to individual assets. Transfer completed October 2019.
Evidence
From Hafrok’s transactions record
Farmdown · 2020-11
RWE → Schroders Greencoat 49%
- Stake
- 49%
- Consideration
- €726m
- Implied 100% value
- €1,481m
- Implied
- €6.76m / MW
- Announced
- 2020-11
- Closed
- 2020-12
- Project stage
- operational
RWE sold a 49% stake in Humber Gateway to Greencoat UK Wind for GBP 648m. Converted at GBP/EUR 1.12 (Nov 2020) = EUR 726m. Implied 100% project value GBP 1,322m / EUR 1,481m. RWE retained 51% and continues as operator.
Evidence
From Hafrok’s transactions record
Dashed tick marks today (9 Sep 2026). The teal diamond on the spine is origination — the seabed award or round that created the project. Every other ownership event lives in the band below: one station per recorded deal, dated at its label, in deal order rather than to calendar scale. Secondary trades appear only at the interchanges; grey lines are parties whose entry or exit Hafrok’s record does not hold.
Announced-COD history: 2015-Q2→2015-Q3 · 2 recorded revisions · held (announced 2015-Q2, unchanged)
Revenue & offtake the regime the project was built under
Offtake regime on record
RegimeROC-supported; E.ON UK PPA 2022–2035 includes ROC output (100% electricity and ROCs)
Instrumentgreen certificates
A built project sells its power under the contract or support regime it was financed with; it is not expected to bid into new government offtake rounds. Where the record does not yet name that regime, the row says so rather than guessing.
Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers
Satellite survey
the farm as it stands, counted from satellite radar images · built before the count began, so there is no build to chart
Satellite survey
Structures standing74≈73 turbines + 1 platform expected · every expected structure seen
Surveyed2026-09-01≈from 90 satellite passes
Built2013 → 2015-Q3offshore construction to start of operation, from the record
Hafrok counts the structures standing in the sea from satellite radar images (≈) and reads the count against the turbines and platforms on record. The farm was built before this count began, so the images show it complete; they cannot date its construction. Rows marked with a dot (·) come from Hafrok’s own registers.
Satellite image
Image taken2026-09-07≈Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellite, northbound pass
Farm covered100%≈the whole farm lies inside the image
Structures ringed74 confirmed · 0 not yet confirmed≈as counted on 2026-09-01 · the image is newer than the count, so a bright spot without a ring may be a structure not yet counted
Construction ports
PortPort of Grimsby (Fish Docks) ◆operations and maintenance
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026, processed by ESA and by Microsoft Planetary Computer.
Latest satellite radar image · 2026-09-07
a radar picture, not a photograph: the sea is dark, steel is bright · black is beyond the edge of the image
confirmed structure (74)seen recently, not yet confirmed (0)probably a substation platform (a larger structure than a turbine; the register above has the facts)farm boundary
Grid connection
from Hafrok’s substation, converter and cable registers
Offshore platforms · 1
Offshore substationHumber Gateway Offshore Substation·132 kV · in service 2015 · owner Humber Gateway OFTO (Balfour Beatty Investments / Equitix consortium)
Grid connection · ready in time?
when each part of the grid connection is due, against the start date the developer states (black line) · a bar spans the whole year, quarter or month the source gives
installed or in serviceexpected deliveryearlier date that was later moved
Sources & verification
17/18 fields verified · rests on 10 sources (6 primary) · ◆ 8 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Regulator2
[4]
Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)2011-02-09◆ Humber Gateway offshore wind farm given …
“Humber Gateway offshore wind farm given go-ahead ... The Yorkshire and Humber region could benefit from jobs and investment as E.ON was granted permission to construct a 230MW wind farm off the”
supportsConsentConsent granted
[10]
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero2026-05-06◆ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD…
“REPD Q1 2026 quarterly extract — Ref ID 2544: Site Name "Humber Gateway A", Development Status "Operational", Installed Capacity 219 MWelec, Operator "E.ON Humber Wind Ltd/ Balfour Beatty Investments …”
supportsRegister entry
Operator4
[1]
RWE AG2025-10-01◆ RWE marks a decade of clean power and re…
“Humber Gateway's 73 turbines can collectively generate up to 219 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power up to 199,000 typical UK homes. The wind farm was officially opened by Andrea Leadsom MP…”
supportsFinal investment decisionTurbinesUnit capacityTotal capacityDistance from shore+2 more
[3]
RWE AG2020-12-15◆ Power Purchase Agreement signed for Humb…
“RWE Renewables signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with E.ON UK under which the company will offtake 100% of the electricity produced by the Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm from 2022 until 2035.…”
supportsMechanismDetail
[7]
[11]
National Energy System Operator (NESO)2026-07-21◆ NESO Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) R…
“NESO TEC Register, edition 21 July 2026 - PRO-000214: "Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm", Status "Built", MW Connected 220, Effective From n/a, Customer "RWE RENEWABLES UK HUMBER WIND LIMITED"”
supportsRegister entry
Trade press4
[5]
Power Technology2015◆ Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm, East …
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsOnshore constructionOffshore constructionFoundationStatusConnection point+1 more
[6]
Power Technology2025◆ Power plant profile: Humber Gateway, UK
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsCommercial operationCOD historyTurbinesModelUnit capacity+1 more
[8]
E.ON UK (via windfair.net)2015-08-06
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsFirst power
[9]