Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm is a 172 MW wind farm 7 km off the Clacton-on-Sea coast in the Northern Thames Estuary.The 108MW Gunfleet Sands 1 wind farm gained planning consent in 2003/4; in 2006 Dong Energy acquired the project and submitted an application for a second 64MW windfarm Gunfleet Sands 2 adjacent to the first which received consent in 2008.