Beatrice stands in the open sea roughly 30 km off the Highland coast; the nearest postcode districts are KW3 (Lybster) and KW2. The site holds 84 turbines of 7 MW each, 588 MW in total. According to the REPD extract from July 2026, it is the tenth-largest of the operational offshore wind farms by capacity.
From application to grid
The application was submitted on 25 April 2012; the register lists SSE, Repsol and CIP as the operators. Scottish Ministers granted Section 36 consent on 19 March 2014, after 99 weeks against their median of 81.1 for offshore wind. The Contract for Difference came in the AR1 round, construction began on 2 April 2017, and the farm became operational on 5 August 2019.
Neighbours in the same patch of sea
Beatrice Demonstrator, at 10 MW, is recorded as a separate, earlier project. Both Moray farms are bigger: Moray East at 950 MW and Moray West at 882 MW. The Beatrice record was last updated on 31 May 2019 and has not been updated since, so later events are missing from it.