The United Kingdom is the world's leading offshore wind power market. The Moray offshore wind power project has made Three Gorges Group the first Chinese company to win the bid for a large European offshore wind power project. Recently, the first 9.5MW wind turbine of the British Moray offshore wind power project was successfully hoisted.

The Moray offshore wind power project is located in the waters of the Gulf of Moray in Scotland. It is a large-scale offshore wind power project jointly developed and constructed by the Three Gorges Group and the Portuguese Power Company in the UK. On October 19, 2015, the Three Gorges Group and the Portuguese Electricity Company signed the "Cooperation Agreement on the Cooperative Development of the British Moray Offshore Wind Power Project" at the Sino-British Annual Energy Dialogue. The agreement was included in the official cooperation results of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the UK A catalog of the results of the agreement released by both parties.

In September 2017, the 950,000-kilowatt British Moray offshore wind power project jointly tendered by Three Gorges Group and Portuguese Electricity Company was successfully bid, marking the successful entry of Three Gorges Group into the world’s largest offshore wind power market and becoming China’s first large-scale offshore wind power project in Europe. The subsidized company is also the first Chinese company to invest in nearly one million kilowatts of offshore wind power projects worldwide.

The Moray offshore wind power project is designed to install 100 single-machine 9.5MW wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 950,000 kilowatts and an average annual utilization hours of more than 4,000 hours. The project officially started construction in December 2018 and is expected to be put into operation in April 2022 to generate electricity. After it is put into operation, it can meet the electricity needs of more than 100,000 local households.

Three Gorges Group entered the world's largest offshore wind power market. At the beginning of 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out in Europe, which adversely affected project construction. With the support and cooperation of all parties, the project management staff strengthened epidemic prevention measures, actively communicated with government departments and equipment suppliers, worked hard to overcome the impact of the epidemic, resumed production and construction in the short term, and ensured that the first wind turbine was hoisted in January 2021 as planned. Currently, the project development progress is in line with expectations. Editor/Sang Xiaomei