Blyth Harbour Wind Farm is a coastal wind farm located along the East Pier of the Port of Blyth

Blyth, Northumberland

Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 21 kilometres  northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne...

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Commissioned in January 1993 it consists of nine 0.3MW WindMaster turbines

Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device may be called a wind generator or wind charger. If the mechanical energy is used to drive machinery, such as for grinding grain or...

 giving a total capacity of 2.7MW. It was developed by AMEC

AMEC

AMEC plc is a global consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is focused on the oil and gas, minerals and metals, renewable energy, environment and infrastructure sectors and has offices in 40 countries worldwide...

Wind and is owned by Hainsford Developments (Blyth Harbour) Limited.

Repowering

In January 2008 consent was granted to replace the existing nine turbines with seven new ones. Six of these would generate 2.5MW each, and a seventh larger would one would produce 7.5MW and be the largest land-based turbine in Europe at 163 m (534.8 ft) tall.