Teesside Offshore Wind Farm or Redcar Wind Farm is a consented offshore wind power plant to be constructed just to the east of the mouth of the River Tees and 1.5km north of Redcar off the Teesside coast, in the North Sea, England. It is being developed by EDF Energy Renewables, a company jointly owned by EDF Energy and EDF Energies Nouvelles. The farm will stand in water of depths up to 20m and will cover an area of approximately 10 sq km.

In 2004 EDF was awarded a 20 year lease from The Crown Estate to develop a wind farm at Teeside part of the first UK offshore wind farm tendering process known as "Round 1".

The Teesside Offshore Wind Farm project includes constructing the wind turbines and their foundations, installing 2 power cables linking the turbines to a new electrical substation required for connection into the UK National Grid at Tod Point, near the Teesside Steelworks. Foundations will be 5.5m diameter monopoles drilled or driven about 35m into the seabed. Electrical cables will carry 33kV.

Planning consent was authorised in September 2007. The consent is for 27 turbines with a nameplate capacity of 62 MW.

Planning

A number of regulatory consents are required for the construction and the operation of Teesside Offshore wind farm. The key consents applied for are as follows:

• Consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act (1989) for the electricity generating facility.

• Consent under Section 34 of the Coast Protection Act (1949) for construction on or under the seabed below MHWS.

• Licence under the Section 5 of the Food and Environment Protection Act (1985) for the placement and deposit of construction materials in the sea below MHWS.

• A PD Teesport Works License to construct on under or over tidal waters and tidal lands below the level of high water in the harbour.

• Planning permission under Section 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the onshore underground electricity cables and the substation.