Ørsted’s Hornsea in the North Sea has 7.5 GW of total capacity, but it’s made up of four separate offshore wind farms. The Swedish offshore wind farm, which will be called Aurora, will be bigger than the 4.8 GW Dogger Bank, which is off the Yorkshire coast in the UK and due to be completed in 2026. Aurora will be sited in the Swedish Economic Zone, about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from the island of Gotland and 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the island of Öland.

Potentia Renewables Inc., which was the successful candidate for a SaskPower request for proposals for utility-scale wind power in 2018, broke ground on the project in 2019. Its total cost was $340 million, according to a Potentia news release.