Construction Other

Sofia Offshore Wind Farm reached an early commissioning milestone in April 2026 when the first of its Siemens Gamesa SG14 14 MW turbines briefly exported electricity to the GB grid. The activity was reported on LinkedIn by industry observer Robin Hawkes, who described the first SG14 turbine generating around 7:30 a.m. on a morning in early April and continuing through the day before being disconnected overnight. However, the AgentZero investigation against the Elexon BMU feed (B1610 metered actuals for T_SOFOW-11/12/21/22) shows that this was clearly a commissioning event rather than a material first-power milestone. Daily metered output was NEGATIVE through mid-April (-30 to -35 MWh per day on 16-17 April) reflecting auxiliary loads drawn from the grid during onshore/offshore site commissioning. The first positive metered output appeared on 21 April (0.107 MWh, peak 0.122 MW), grew slightly through 22-23 April (peak day 0.71 MWh, max 0.137 MW), and returned to zero from 24 April onwards. Peak metered output across the entire period was 0.323 MW — under 0.025% of the projects 1,400 MW nameplate. The Physical Notification feed showed up to 200 MW of planned dispatch on individual BMUs over the same window, indicating that the operator was submitting active dispatch plans during commissioning, but actual delivered energy remained negligible. AgentZero has therefore reclassified this from a first_power milestone to a construction_other event: the technical achievement is real (first kWh exported to grid) but the scale is not material for an operational 1.4 GW asset, and the project remains substantively in construction.