The latest (Autumn 2024) newsletter for the Awel y Môr windfarm is available from the Awel y Môr website here. It provides an update on the preparatory work that is underway to get ready for construction work to begin in 2025.
Project Update
The Autumn 2024 newsletter details the pre-construction work that is being carried out on land for Awel y Môr. Highlights include an update on archaeological work being carried out at the location of the onshore substation site, which has found evidence of two ancient Iron Age roundhouses; information about survey work along the route of the onshore export cables; and fencing off an area of habitat for great crested newts.
Awel y Môr are keen to provide opportunities to companies involved in the offshore wind sector in the area, and the newsletter also provides information about RWE’s “Supplier Transparency Engagement Programme” (STEP). Companies can register to be part of an open-search database alongside other suppliers and will receive project updates and regular opportunities to meet with project supply chain managers. More information can be found at https://awelymor.cymru/suppliers/.
About the proposed windfarm
The Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm is a project being developed by RWE around six miles off the North Wales coast, to the west of the existing Gwynt y Môr windfarm. Awel y Môr will be connected to the National Grid by an export cable coming ashore between Rhyl and Prestatyn. It will have between 34 and 50 wind turbines and cover an area of around 78km². It could generate enough power for up to half a million homes, and it will be the largest renewable energy investment in Wales in this decade. Full project details and maps of the windfarm location are available at the project website awelymor.cymru.