Ormonde
Located in East Irish Sea off Barrow-in-Furness. Four-legged steel jacket foundations.
Status
Operationallifecycle stage
Ownership
Vattenfall — 51% ◆AMFAMF — 49% ◆
Location
United KingdomIrish Sea
Technology
Capacity
150 MW ◆
Turbines
30 × 5 MW ◆
Model
Repower 5m ◆
Foundation
Jacket ◆
Site & conditions
Site rights
Seabed rights held ∴
Origination
Crown Estate Round 1 · 2001 ·
Water depth
21–21 m ◆
Distance from shore
10 km ◆
Wind speed
9.5 m/s @ 100 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Other ∅
Grid
Secured · 2009-07 ◆
Connection
Heysham substation (Trimpell 2 circuit), onshore cable from … ◆
Schedule
FID
Taken · date not recorded ∴
COD
Feb 2012 ◆
Project timeline & ownership verified milestones on the spine · ownership from Hafrok’s transactions record
Origination · 2001-04
Crown Estate Round 1
- Awarded to
- (Eclipse Energy; built by Vattenfall)
- Basis
- seabed award
From the auction results — the round that created the project.
Farmdown · 2015-12
Vattenfall → AMF (Swedish pension fund) 49%
- Stake
- 49%
- Consideration
- €325m
- Implied 100% value
- €663m
- Implied
- €4.42m / MW
- Announced
- 2015-12
- Closed
- 2016-Q1
- Project stage
- operational
Vattenfall sold 49% of the 150 MW Ormonde offshore wind farm to AMF (Swedish pension insurer) for GBP 237m (~SEK 3bn). Converted at GBP/EUR 1.37 (Dec 2015) = EUR 325m. Vattenfall retained 51% and operatorship.
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: 2012-Q1→2012-02 · 2 recorded revisions · held (announced 2012-Q1, unchanged)
Revenue & offtake the regime the project was built under
Offtake regime: ROC 2.0 ROCs/MWh
RegimeROC 2.0 ROCs/MWh
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 standing30≈30 turbines + 1 platform expected · 1 fewer than expected — a position the survey missed
Surveyed2026-09-01≈from 120 satellite passes
Built2010-05 → 2012-02offshore 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, southbound pass
Farm covered100%≈the whole farm lies inside the image
Structures ringed30 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
PortBarrow-in-Furness ◆
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 (30)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 substationOrmonde Offshore Substation Platform (OSP)·owner Transmission Capital Partners (TCP) — acquired the Ormonde transmission assets as OFTO, with the OSP inside the transfer perimeter. BUILT for and originally owned by Vattenfall AB, through Ormonde Energy Limited. The party named on the record today is not the builder.
Sources & verification
14/18 fields verified · rests on 13 sources (9 primary) · ◆ 10 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
[5]
Ofgem2009-07◆ Ormonde Offshore Transmission — Project-…
“The Ormonde Wind Farm is to be located 10 km off Walney Island in the East Irish Sea. A single subsea cable will connect the OSP to the mainland, with the onshore connection point being at the Trimpel…”
supportsStatusConnection pointDistance from shoreport
[15]
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero2026-05-06◆ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD…
“REPD Q1 2026 quarterly extract — Ref ID 2509: Site Name "Ormonde Offshore", Development Status "Operational", Installed Capacity 150 MWelec, Operator "Vattenfall"”
supportsRegister entry
Operator5
[1]
Vattenfall AB2012-09-19◆ Offshore windpark Ormonde officieel in g…
“Vattenfall's offshore windpark Ormonde (150 MW), wordt vandaag officieel in gebruik genomen. Het is het eerste commerciële windpark met windmolens van 5 MW. Het windpark ligt voor de kust van Cumbria …”
supportsTurbinesUnit capacityTotal capacity
[2]
Vattenfall AB2011-08-19◆ Brits windpark Ormonde produceert eerste…
“Gisterenavond om 20.00 uur produceerde windpark Ormonde voor het eerst elektriciteit. [...] Ormonde ligt op tien kilometer voor de kust in de Ierse Zee. [...] De bouw van het park startte vorig jaar m…”
supportsFirst powerDistance from shore
[4]
Vattenfall AB2011-03-24◆ Eerste turbine op Vattenfall’s Ormonde o…
“Vattenfall is begonnen met de installatie van één van 's werelds grootste offshore windturbines voor het Engelse offshore windpark Ormonde. De 153 meter hoge turbine van 5 Megawatt (mw) met een gewich…”
supportsTurbinesModelUnit capacityTotal capacity
[11]
Vattenfall2025
“In 2015, Vattenfall entered a partnership with Swedish pension group AMF. The partnership agreement means that AMF own a 49% share and Vattenfall continues to operate the wind farm as the majority sha…”
supportsoperatorinvestor
[16]
National Energy System Operator (NESO)2026-07-21◆ NESO Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) R…
“NESO TEC Register, edition 21 July 2026 - PRO-000216: "Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm", Status "Built", MW Connected 150, Effective From n/a, Customer "ORMONDE ENERGY LIMITED"”
supportsRegister entry
Trade press5
[6]
Tethys (PNNL) — abstract of Vattenfall/Ormonde Energy Ltd 2010 CEMR2010◆ Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm 2010 Construc…
"The Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm is a 150MW project located approximately 10km west of Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, in roughly 20 metres of water. It comprises up to 30 turbines at 5MW ea…
supportsConsentFoundationConsent granted
[7]
offshoreWIND.biz2012-02-22◆ Vattenfall Completes Ormonde Offshore Wi…
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsFinal investment decisionCommercial operationCOD history
[8]
offshoreWIND.biz2012-09-19◆ UK: Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm Officiall…
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsModelFoundation
[10]
Power Technology (GlobalData)2023◆ Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm - Power Techn…
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsOnshore constructionOffshore constructionWater depth
[13]
Encyclopaedic1
[12]