Gwynt y Mor

160 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines160
Installed capacity576 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Application submitted November 2005 Permission granted December 2008 Permission expired December 2011 Under construction March 2012 Operational June 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2543.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 37 months. Construction to first power took about 39 months. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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