Follow Us We are first in your inbox with the most important news in the industry―keeping you smarter and one-step ahead in this ever-changing and competitive market.Start your free subscription POWER Digest [February 2021] Ørsted Gets UK’s Green Light to Build 2.4-GW Offshore Wind Farm. Danish multinational company Ørsted on Dec. 31 received development consent from the UK to build the 2.4-GW Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm. The development consent order came just weeks after the UK government set an ambitious target to install 40 GW of offshore wind—and 1 GW of floating offshore wind—by 2030 as part of efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040. The order, granted 26 months after Ørsted submitted its final plans for the project, allows Ørsted to install 231 turbines—not 300 as the company had applied for—off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea. Ørsted completed the 1.2-GW Hornsea One project 89 kilometers (km) off the Yorkshire coast in January 2020. Featuring 174 Siemens Gamesa 7-MW wind turbines, that project is currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm. Ørsted is now building the 1.4-GW Hornsea Two wind farm. That project, which features 165 Siemens Gamesa 8-MW turbines, is slated to come online in 2022. The company said it is also exploring a fourth wind farm—Hornsea Four—about 65 km off the Yorkshire coast, but that project remains in the pre-application phase.