Vattenfall UK

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Vattenfall UK
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Renewable energy
Founded2000
Headquarters
London
,
England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Claus Wattendrup (country manager) [1]
Products Electrical power
Parent Vattenfall
Website www.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]

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History

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

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]
ProjectLocationWindmillsStateGenerating CapacityTotal HeightYear SubmittedYear Operational
Aultmore Forest - Buckie - WindfarmAultmore Forest, Drybridge, Buckie16Proposed105.60 megawatts200 meters2024N/A
Clashindarroch Clashindarroch Forest, Huntly18Operational37 megawattsN/A20092015
Clashindarroch 2Clashindarroch Forest, Huntly14Approved77 megawatts180 meters2019N/A
Edinbane Wind FarmCruachan Brinn Mhicaskill, Edinbane, Portree, Highlands18Operational41.4 megawatts20022010
European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) - testing and demonstration site Aberdeenshire 11Operational96.8 megawattsN/A20112018
HarringtonFormer RAF
Harrington Airfield		7Denied [13] 14 megawatts126 meters
HirddywelHirddywel9Proposed27 megawatts125 meters2010
Kentish Flats 60 km east of London 30Operational90 megawatts20022005
Kentish Flats 260 km east of London 15Operational49.5 megawatts20122015
Llanbadarn
Fynydd		North of Llanbadarn Fynydd
in Radnorshire, Powys		17Denied51 megawatts126.5 meters2007N/A
Muir Mhòr63 km east of Peterhead 67Proposed51 megawatts340 meters2024
Mynydd Waun FawrSouthwest of Llanerfyl
in Powys, Wales		15 (revised to 13)Withdrawn [14] 37.5 megawatts110 meters
Ormonde Offshore 10 km off Barrow on Furness, Heysham30Operational150 megawatts20052012
Ourack6 km north of Granton-on-Spey 18Under Development [15] 105 megawatts180 meters2022
Pen Y Cymoedd Land stretches from the Upper Afan Valley to end of Cynon Valley 76Operational228 megawatts20092017
Quantans Hill Wind FarmCarsphairn, Castle Douglas 14Proposed [16] 96 megawatts200 meters2023
Ray Wind Farm Kirkwhelpington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 16Operational54.4 megawatts20052017
South Kyle Wind Farmwithin Kyle Forest and to the east of Dalmellington 50Under Development240 megawatts150 meters2013N/A
South Kyle Wind Farm 2within Kyle Forest and to the east of Dalmellington 11Proposed92.4 megwatts200 meters2025
Thanet 11 km off North Foreland Kent 100Operational300 megawatts20052010

References

  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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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