RWE plans Awel y Môr offshore wind farm off North Wales
- Location
- Irish Sea off Rhyl, North Wales · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Project
- Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm
- Investment
- not specified (Contract for Difference awarded at £91.20/MWh in January 2026, no total capex figure given)
- Status
- Approved/planned
Awel y Môr is a proposed offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea about 10 km north of Rhyl (Denbighshire, North Wales), west of the existing Gwynt y Môr wind farm. It is planned to have an installed capacity of 775 MW with 34 to 50 turbines (up to 331 m tall) and is being developed by RWE Renewables together with SWM and Siemens Financial Services. Consent was granted in 2023, and in January 2026 the project was awarded a Contract for Difference; commissioning is expected in 2030/2031 — the first new offshore wind farm off Wales in ten years.
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