Kentish Flats
The Kentish Flats offshore wind farm is located on the southern side of the outer Thames estuary, some 8.5 km due north of Herne Bay and Whitstable on the North Kent coast. The site is approx 60 kilometres east of central London and is sheltered from the heavy wave conditions by a network of sandbanks located further offshore. The site is easily accessed from the local maintenance port at Whitstable, which is only 30 minutes away by boat.
Water depth
The water depth is on average 5 metres with a variable thickness of seabed sand, underlain by soft to firm clays, on top of the London clay formation, which favours a simple, single driven monopile foundation design.

Deep draft vessels cannot navigate the Kentish Flats, as the waters are simply too shallow.

Cabling
The power is connected to the overall grid via three buried cables from the wind farm to the shore, which then continues onwards by buried cables to the onshore sub-station. Cables was buried with least possible local disturbance. There is no new overhead cables on pylons.

The generated electricity is fed into the electricity network via a sub-station at Herne Bay for use in the local grid serving the needs of the communities of North Kent around Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable.

The Kentish Flats wind farm will operate for 20 years, after which the wind farm may be decommissioned and entirely removed from the offshore environment.