Power plant · Wales, United Kingdom
Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm
Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm is a wind power plant in Wales, United Kingdom, with 500 MW of capacity, operated by Awel y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited and RWE Renewables.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Wales (Wales) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | Wales | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | To the west of, and immediately adjacent to, the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | 10.5 km off the coast of North Wales, To the west of, and immediately adjacent to, the Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (post-decision, granted) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Onshore or offshore | Offshore | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 20 Sept 2023 (permit EN010112, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by Secretary of State) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 20 Sept 2023 (permit EN010112, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 Apr 2022 (reference EN010112, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 Apr 2022 (reference EN010112, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Sept 2023 (granted, reference EN010112, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Sept 2023 (granted, reference EN010112, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Awel y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | RWE Renewables (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 500 MW (description) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 775 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind Offshore | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 12,400 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.3328, -3.4522 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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- Permit granted (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010112) · source
- Permit granted (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010112)
- Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010112)
- Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010112) · source
Also recorded as
2 sources record Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.
| Name in the source | Identifier | Source | Matched on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm | asset:pins-nsip:en010112 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects | — |
| Awel y Mor Offshore Wind Farm | asset:repd:7699 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) | Same planning reference |
How it compares
Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm is the 5th-largest of 157 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Wales and the 106th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 500 MW is 0.18% of the 279,068 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 5th of 157 | 16,088 MW | 3.1% |
| United Kingdom | 106th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.18% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 257th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 6 grid connections (3 operating, 9.25 MW), 3 data centers, 3 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Wales Wind Farms Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 27 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 32 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 44 km |
| Scarisbrick | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
| Ormskirk | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
| Landsdale Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 46 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 48 km |
| Halsalls Lodge grid connection | Grid connection | 119 MW | Planned | 49 km |
Operators and place
More from Awel y Mor Offshore Wind Farm Limited
- Awel Y Mor grid connection1,100 MW
Other power plants in Wales
- Pembroke2,325 MW
- Dinorwig1,728 MW
- Aberthaw B1,559 MW
- Connahs Quay1,380 MW
- Severn Power Ltd850 MW
- Gwynt y Mor576 MW
- Deeside498 MW
- Ffestiniog360 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. planning.data.gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.