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Arklow Bank Wind Park

Ireland

The 3172nd largest power station in the world

25 MW · Capacity

Arklow Bank Wind Park is a 25 megawatt offshore wind farm generating electrical power for the Wicklow region in Ireland. It is the first offshore wind farm in Ireland, and the world's first erection of wind turbines rated over 3 MW. It is located on the Arklow Bank, a shallow water sandbank in the Irish Sea, around 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) off the coast of Arklow with an area of 27 by 2.5 kilometres (16.8 by 1.6 mi). The project is being co-developed by Airtricity and GE Wind Energy. The Arklow Bank Wind Farm capacity remained 25MW as of October 2018. In October 2022, lightning struck and burned a turbine.

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