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Founded in 2001 as one of the largest wind farms in the world , the Jaisalmer wind park has a capacity of around 1,600MW , which caters for both public and private use . The site has a total of 11,000 wind turbines that can produce enough power to take the equivalent of 6mn cars off the road , according to the park ’ s developer , Suzlon .

Leading the way for offshore wind projects is Hornsea 1 , a 1.2GW farm comprising of 174 wind turbines which each produce 7MW of power . Owned by Orsted and Global Infrastructure Partners ( GIP ) the farm powers around 1.000,000 houses .

Whilst the project began in 2014 with construction starting two years later , the onshore element of the project was completed in 2016 with offshore finishing construction in 2018 . It ’ s still relatively new project as it wasn ’ t fully operational until 2020 .

62 December 2022