World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Hornsea One Generates First Power

The first turbine at the world’s largest offshore wind farm has been installed and is now supplying electricity to the UK electricity grid, according to Danish energy giant Ørsted, co-developer of the 1.2 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. It was reported earlier this week that Hornsea Project One was nearing generating its first power to the grid, and on Friday Ørsted announced that the first of 174 7-megawatt (MW) wind turbines had been installed and had begun generating power to the grid. Located 120 kilometers off the Yorkshire Coast in the UK, the 1.2 GW juggernaut will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm when completed in the first quarter of 2020, generating power to supply the needs of well over 1 million homes.