Rhyl Flats

25 turbines · operational · Offshore

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOffshore
Turbines25
Installed capacity90 MW
Turbine capacity3.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE Npower
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Application submitted March 2002 Permission granted January 2003 Under construction September 2007 Operational December 2009 Permission expired January 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2495.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 10 months. Construction to first power took about 27 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2015. The scheme has been operating for about 17 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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