Caeli opens turbine supply tender for 192 MW Eaubrink onshore wind site in Norfolk

Caeli, the German-founded digital wind development platform, has launched a turbine supply tender for the Eaubrink onshore wind project in Norfolk^[1]. The site could accommodate up to 40 wind turbines at a capacity of 192 MW^[1], making it one of the larger onshore wind projects to enter procurement in England since planning restrictions were eased.

What Caeli is and how the tender works

Caeli operates as what it calls an "onshore wind accelerator," running a digital marketplace that connects landowners and project developers through a structured tender process. The company launched its UK platform in May 2025, bringing a model it had already proven across wind farm projects in Germany.

Its process for a site like Eaubrink typically involves:

• AI-assisted site analysis covering wind conditions, grid access, and planning constraints
• A structured auction on its digital marketplace, reaching a network of project developers
• Presentation of all incoming offers to the site owner in a standardised format
• Developer selection by the landowner once the auction closes

The Eaubrink tender is the latest example of Caeli applying that model to a pre-screened English site, with turbine supply now the active procurement stage^[1].

The policy backdrop in England

The Eaubrink tender lands in a materially different regulatory environment from even two years ago. The UK government lifted the de facto ban on onshore wind in England - in place since 2015 - within its first days in office in 2024^[1]. The Clean Power 2030 Action Plan, published in December 2024, subsequently set a target of 27-29 GW of onshore wind by 2030, roughly double the installed base at the time.

Great Britain had 14.8 GW of installed onshore wind capacity when the Onshore Wind Taskforce Strategy was published in July 2025, meaning the sector needs to add more than 12 GW in under five years to hit the lower end of the target. The government has also raised the threshold above which onshore wind projects require central government consent to 100 MW, which keeps a 192 MW project like Eaubrink in the nationally significant infrastructure tier - but the planning environment for projects below that threshold has become considerably more permissive.

Norfolk as an onshore wind location

Norfolk is better known for its offshore wind corridor - RWE's Vanguard West and Vanguard East projects, each 1.4 GW, are under construction with turbine supply agreements already in place, and Ørsted's Hornsea Three is cabling ashore at Weybourne. Onshore wind at scale in the county is less established, which makes the Eaubrink tender a test of whether the post-ban planning environment can deliver large projects in areas where offshore wind has dominated the investment narrative.

The 40-turbine ceiling at Eaubrink implies average unit ratings of around 4.8 MW if the full 192 MW is built out - consistent with the mid-range of modern onshore turbines currently available in the UK market^[1].

The next milestone to watch is which turbine manufacturers respond to the tender and whether Caeli's digital auction model can compress the procurement timeline that has historically added months to onshore wind development in England.