The Walney Offshore Windfarm project is located approximately 15km west of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and the project consists of Walney 1 and Walney 2, each with 51 - 3.6Mw turbines giving a total capacity of the Walney project of 367.2Mw. It began generating power from its first turbine in January 2011. CCL UK were contracted to carry out the fibre optic testing on the array subsea cables both pre and post lay.