“As the culmination of more than five years’ work involving extensive consultation and data gathering, this is a significant achievement for the team. They are now hard at work refining the plans for construction both offshore and onshore, and taking the necessary steps to enable us to take a Final Investment Decision,” said Tamsyn Rowe , Project Lead.

Awel y Môr is also one of seven UK offshore wind farm developments for which the Crown Estate is assessing requests to increase generation capacity over and above the project’s initial Agreement for Lease while staying within its existing consent boundaries.