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Project advancing - milestone achieved
High Impact
Major milestone or critical setback
DELAYED +1yr (May 2026): Given Sumitomo’s Dec 2025 update that ‘power generation is targeted to commence after 2030’ (i.e., first power post-2030), COD/full operations in 2031 becomes optimistic. Shifting full commercial operations one year later to 2032 to maintain realistic separation between first power (now projected 2031) and full COD. DELAYED +1yr (Apr 2026): Project’s own published timeline indicates first energy generation in 2030 and the wind farm “Fully operational” in 2031 (i.e., full commercial operations/COD later than the earlier ‘operational by 2030’ messaging). This is reflected in the Five Estuaries Spring 2025 newsletter timeline and aligns with third‑party engineering contractor Kent’s statement that Five Estuaries is planned to be fully operational from 2031. Therefore the 2030-12-31 full commercial operations projection is updated to 2031 (year-end). --- Five Estuaries is targeting commercial operations by 2030. The 1,080 MW project received development consent in December 2025. Developed by RWE (33.33%), Macquarie (25%), ESB (20.83%), and Sumitomo (20.83%) off the Essex/Suffolk coast.