The latest (Spring 2025) newsletter for the Awel y Môr windfarm is available from the Awel y Môr website here. It provides an update on the current project timeline and work across the supply chain, was well as information about training, supply chain and onshore work associated with the project.
Project Update
The Spring 2025 newsletter details the pre-construction work that is being carried out on land for Awel y Môr. Highlights include the recruitment of apprentices, sponsorship of GCSE Science revision classes, and work to develop a strategy for skills and employment. There is also an update on the ongoing work to create new habitats for great crested newts at the proposed site of the onshore substation. The current timeline for the project indicates that offshore site investigations are scheduled in 2026, and the offshore construction is due to start as early as 2029.
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.