Wind power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 53.6815, 1.4207.
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Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord is a 1,200 MW wind power station in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Orsted (formerly Dong Energy). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,021,165 homes (estimated). It ranks #18 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 29.4% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR2001034.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Orsted (formerly Dong Energy). All plants by this company →
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #1 largest wind power plant of 780 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 780 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 23,203 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 53.6815, 1.4207 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
