Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm
Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm

Offshore wind farm

Rhyl Flats

Rhyl Flats is a 25 turbine, 90 megawatt wind farm located in Liverpool Bay, approximately 8 kilometres north east of Llandudno in North Wales. The wind farm produces enough clean energy a year to power 70,000 households, equivalent to cutting 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. The wind farm began producing power in December 2009.

Project status: In operation

Facts and figures

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wind turbines

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off the North Wales coast

Power for over 00

average UK households

Community fund

Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm community benefit funding available for community projects across parts of the North Wales coastline. The fund in was launched in 2009 with a base level of £90,000 and is index linked each year in line with inflation which will amount to a fund of over £2 million over the operational lifetime of the wind farm.

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Shareholders

Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm is operated by RWE and is owned by a consortium of RWE (50.1%), Green Investment Group (24.95%) and Greencoat (24.95%).