But 10 years from now, when the sector has gained a clearer sense of its own history, Belgium’s 300-megawatt (MW) Thornton Bank offshore wind farm will clearly be seen to occupy a critical juncture in the industry’s evolution. It is bigger, further out and deeper than any of its predecessors.
Thornton Bank’s developer C-Power, which filed its first application for the project in 1998, recently commissioned the first 30MW of turbines.