Vattenfall UK

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Vattenfall UK
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRenewable energy
Founded2000
Headquarters
London
,
England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Claus Wattendrup (country manager)[1]
ProductsElectrical power
ParentVattenfall
Websitewww.vattenfall.co.uk

Vattenfall UK (formerly: Nuon Renewables) is a subsidiary of Vattenfall headquartered in London. It generates renewable energy, primarily through wind farms.[2]

History

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Vattenfall UK was established as Nuon Renewables in 2000. It was a United Kingdom-based subsidiary of N.V. Nuon Energy. It has built wind farms across the UK with a potential annual power generation total of eight hundred megawatts.[3]

In 2009, N.V. Nuon Energy was acquired by Vattenfall.[4] In January 2012, it was merged with Vattenfall's other assets in the United Kingdom and was renamed Vattenfall UK.[5]

In March 2020, Vattenfall UK sold its electric vehicle network to Statkraft and its supply side business, iSupply Energy, to EDF Energy.[6]

Operations

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Vattenfall's core businesses in the United Kingdom are renewable power generation, heating, business-to-business sales and distribution.[6] In 2025, Vattenfall UK began exploring the sale of its heating and electricity distribution businesses[7][8].

The company owns and operates numerous wind farms[9], some as small as their ten megawatt Parc Cynog wind farm, to others as large as Pen y Cymoedd Wind Energy, a 228-megawatt development.[3] Their largest wind farm is Thanet, with a nameplate capacity of 300-megawatts. In 2023, Vattenfall UK announced that it planned to pause any further offshore wind farm development in Norfolk[10], and sold its Norfolk Wind Zone to RWE for £1 billion[11].

Wind farms[12]
Project Location Windmills State Generating Capacity Total Height Year Submitted Year Operational
Aultmore Forest - Buckie - Windfarm Aultmore Forest, Drybridge, Buckie 16 Proposed 105.60 megawatts 200 meters 2024 N/A
Clashindarroch Clashindarroch Forest, Huntly 18 Operational 37 megawatts N/A 2009 2015
Clashindarroch 2 Clashindarroch Forest, Huntly 14 Approved 77 megawatts 180 meters 2019 N/A
Edinbane Wind Farm Cruachan Brinn Mhicaskill, Edinbane, Portree, Highlands 18 Operational 41.4 megawatts 2002 2010
European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) - testing and demonstration site Aberdeenshire 11 Operational 96.8 megawatts N/A 2011 2018
Harrington Former RAF
Harrington Airfield		 7 Denied[13] 14 megawatts 126 meters
Hirddywel Hirddywel 9 Proposed 27 megawatts 125 meters 2010
Kentish Flats 60km east of London 30 Operational 90 megawatts 2002 2005
Kentish Flats 2 60km east of London 15 Operational 49.5 megawatts 2012 2015
Llanbadarn
Fynydd		 North of Llanbadarn Fynydd
in Radnorshire, Powys		 17 Denied 51 megawatts 126.5 meters 2007 N/A
Muir Mhòr 63km east of Peterhead 67 Proposed 51 megawatts 340 meters 2024
Mynydd Waun Fawr Southwest of Llanerfyl
in Powys, Wales		 15 (revised to 13) Withdrawn[14] 37.5 megawatts 110 meters
Ormonde Offshore 10km off Barrow on Furness, Heysham 30 Operational 150 megawatts 2005 2012
Ourack 6km north of Granton-on-Spey 18 Under Development[15] 105 megawatts 180 meters 2022
Pen Y Cymoedd Land stretches from the Upper Afan Valley to end of Cynon Valley 76 Operational 228 megawatts 2009 2017
Quantans Hill Wind Farm Carsphairn, Castle Douglas 14 Proposed[16] 96 megawatts 200 meters 2023
Ray Wind Farm Kirkwhelpington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 16 Operational 54.4 megawatts 2005 2017
South Kyle Wind Farm within Kyle Forest and to the east of Dalmellington 50 Under Development 240 megawatts 150 meters 2013 N/A
South Kyle Wind Farm 2 within Kyle Forest and to the east of Dalmellington 11 Proposed 92.4 megwatts 200 meters 2025
Thanet 11km off North Foreland Kent 100 Operational 300 megawatts 2005 2010

References

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  1. ^ Vattenfall (8 July 2024) Vattenfall Appoints Claude Wattendrup as UK Country Head Vattenfall
  2. ^ Renewable Energy Association. "Renewable Energy Association". Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b Nuon Renewables. "About". ProntoCMS. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  4. ^ Nuon and Vattenfall Join Forces to Create a Leading European Energy Company (23 February 2009) Business Wire
  5. ^ Nuon Renewables joins forces with Vattenfall in the UK (10 January 2012) Power Engineering International
  6. ^ a b Lempriere, Molly (2020-03-18). "Statkraft acquires Vattenfall's UK charging network as company continues to shift focus". Current±. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  7. ^ Cork, Tristan (2025-04-02). "Council chiefs 'reassured' over multi-million pound heating network's future". Bristol Live. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  8. ^ Leung, Edith (2025-04-11). "Vattenfall hires advisors to sell heating business". ION Analytics. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  9. ^ "Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD): July 2025 (quarter 2) - updated 30 September 2025 - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  10. ^ "Vattenfall Stops UK Offshore Wind Project Citing Costs and Lower Profits". The Maritime Executive. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  11. ^ "Norfolk offshore wind farms sold to RWE for £1bn". 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  12. ^ "Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD): July 2025 (quarter 2) - updated 30 September 2025 - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  13. ^ "Harrington wind farm decision appeal fails". BBC News. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  14. ^ "Renewable Energy Planning Database: quarterly extract". GOV.UK. 2025-09-30. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  15. ^ "Vattenfall gets green light for 100MW Scottish Highlands onshore wind farm". www.businessgreen.com. 2025-03-27. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  16. ^ Ltd, Renews (2023-02-13). "Vattenfall submits Quantans Hill wind farm plan". reNEWS - Renewable Energy News. Archived from the original on 2024-01-26. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
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