Power plant · Arun, England, United Kingdom

Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm

Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm is a power plant in Arun, England, United Kingdom, with 1,200 MW of capacity, operated by Rampion Extension Development Limited and RWE Renewables UK Limited.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Arun (coordinates), England (South East)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	United Kingdom	NESO TEC Register · NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Adjacent to the exisiting Rampion Wind Farm, approximately 13km off the Sussex Coast	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Rampion Wind Farm, East Quay, Newhaven, BN9	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Permitted (post-decision, granted)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Permitted (planning permission granted)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Offshore	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Offshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	4 Apr 2025 (permit EN010117, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by Secretary of State)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	4 Apr 2025 (permit EN010117, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	10 Aug 2023 (reference EN010117, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	10 Aug 2023 (reference EN010117, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	4 Apr 2025 (granted, reference EN010117, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	4 Apr 2025 (granted, reference EN010117, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Rampion Extension Development Limited (applicant)	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	RWE Renewables UK Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,200 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	90 units	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind Offshore	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind Offshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Area	25,924 ha (application boundary)	planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.7996, -0.5623	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

3 sources record Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm	asset:pins-nsip:en010117	Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects	—
Rampion Wind Farm (Extension), (Rampion 2)	asset:repd:7698	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD)	Same name, technology and capacity
Rampion Extension Offshore Wind Farm	asset:neso-tec:pro-000467	NESO TEC Register	Same name, technology and capacity

How it compares

Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm is the 23rd-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 40th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,200 MW is 0.4% of the 300,661 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	23rd of 2,174	186,088 MW	0.64%
United Kingdom	40th of 3,222	300,661 MW	0.4%
All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data	59th of 6,455	664,240 MW	0.18%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 90 grid connections (54 operating, 527 MW), 73 substations, 11 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Bilsham Primary	Substation	—	—	4.1 km
Solar 10 MW grid connection at Bilsham	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	4.3 km
Solar 10 MW grid connection at Bilsham	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	4.3 km
Solar 3 MW grid connection at Bilsham	Grid connection	3 MW	Operating	5.2 km
South Bersted Primary	Substation	—	—	7.4 km
Argyle Road Primary	Substation	—	—	8.4 km
IBM Horsham	Data center	—	—	29 km
SSE data center, Havant	Data center	—	—	30 km
Aquind Interconnector	Transmission line	—	Planned	36 km

Operators and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Rampion Extension Offshore Wind Farm grid connection1,200 MW

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Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
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Data on this page

DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
planning.data.gov.uk. planning.data.gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.