Westermost Rough Wind Farm

Westermost Rough Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm north east off Withernsea off the Holderness coast, in the North Sea, England. The farm covers an area of approximately 35km2 with a generation capacity of approximately 210 MW. It became operational in May 2015.HistoryThe Westermost Wind farm site was originally awarded to Total in 2003 during the initial Round 2 wind farm tendering process; Total later withdrew and the concession was returned to the Crown Estate in 2006. In 2007 Dong Energy was awarded a lease from The Crown Estate to develop a wind farm at Westermost Rough. The company Westermost Rough Ltd was established 2007; a subsidiary of Dong Energy.A planning application was submitted in November 2009, and consent was given by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2011 for a development of up to 80 turbines of up to 245 MW power with a limit of 172m turbine tip height, and 150m rotor diameter, as well as associated onshore and offshore substations, cabling and other infrastructure.Initial expectations were for an earliest in service date of 2014, in January 2013 construction of the wind farm was confirmed, with construction scheduled to start in 2014 with the farm operational by 2015.Dong Energy sold a 50% stake in the wind farm in equal parts to the Green Investment Bank and to Marubeni Corporation for a total of £240 million; as part of the sale the two buyers committed to investing £500 million in the construction of the wind farm; the two companies, through the joint company WMR JV Investco Limited secured £370 million from lenders in August 2014 to fund the capital cost of the project.