You might remember back at the beginning of the year we reported on plans to build a massive windfarm off the coast of Devon and Cornwall. Well Kent got there first.

Spinning into operation this week, the Thanet windfarm, which cost £780 million to build, is the world’s biggest offshore windfarm and will produce sufficient power for 200,000 homes (300 megawatts).

Thanet will bring the UK’s wind power capacity to over five gigawatts. “It’s an important milestone,” explains RenewableUK’s chief executive Maria McCaffery, “five gigawatts takes us within reach of our 2020 targets, while proving that each successive gigawatt takes less and less time to deploy.”

Look out for Devon and Cornwall’s contribution to the next gigawatt then, sure to be coming soon...