Rhyl Flats

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The Rhyl Flats wind farm is an offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea (Liverpool Bay - Bay of Liverpool) about 8 km off the coast of Wales (United Kingdom) between Llandudno and Rhyl.

Construction

The park consists of 25 wind turbines of the type Siemens SWT -3.6 -107 with a rotor diameter of 107 m and an installed electrical capacity of 3.6 MW, for a total of about 90 MW. The gondolas with the generators are located at 80 meters above sea level. The 25 accommodation is spread over an area of ​​about 10 km ². The bay has at this point a depth of approximately 15 m. The electricity is passed through submarine cables to a substation on land ( in Towyn ).

Rhyl Flats is one of four offshore wind farms in the Liverpool Bay: The east neighboring North Hoyle with 60 MW capacity went into operation in 2003. Further east lies Burbo Bank with 90 MW. The much larger farm Gwynt y Môr with 160 plants for 576 MW is under construction since the summer of 2012. Burbo bank is part of the Danish Dong Energy, the other three to RWE Innogy (formerly RWE npower ).

History

The Rhyl Flats wind farm is part of the " Round 1 " of the development program for offshore wind farms, the Crown Estate, which began in late 2000.

The project development for the park initially drove ahead of the planners Celtic Offshore Wind Limited ( COWL ), who received the building permit for 2002. In the same year npower renewables took over the project from COWL.

With the construction of the wind farm began in the summer of 2007. The substation on land was completed in 2008. About two years after construction began, in July 2009, the first of 25 wind turbines dined for the first time a current. On 2 December 2009, the wind farm in the presence of the British Minister for Wales, Peter Hain, officially put into operation.