A newsletter detailing progress with the construction of the Gwynt y Môr website has just been published. You can download a copy here, and we’ve summarised the key points below:-
- Offshore
- Half of the 160 wind turbine foundations have now been installed by the vessels Stanislav Yudin and Friederich Ernestine.
- Work on turbine installation will be completed by the Friederich Ernestine, which is one of the largest windfarm construction vessels in the world.
- Work on the export cables from the site started in the autumn and will resume again in the spring of 2013.
- Onshore
- The First Minister of Wales, the Rt Hon Carwyn Jones, formally opened the RWE npower renewables wind turbine technician apprenticeship programme at Coleg Llandrillo Menai in Rhos on Sea.
- The new onshore substation at St Asaph is almost complete, and is due to be finished in early 2013.
- Four noise monitoring stations have been established along the North Wales coast.
- A 24-hour noise hotline has been established for the project (phone number 0845 026 0587).
- Port activity
- Work has begun to intall a new pontoon at the Gwynt y Môr Base Harbour Port Facility at Birkenhead. Six crew transfer vessels will be based here.
- Tower, hubs and blades for the wind turbines are due to start being delivered to the Port of Mostun in early 2013.
Please contact Jim Andrews, Fishery Liaison Officer by e-mail or phone (+44(0)7908-225865) if you have any queries or concerns about these activities.