Anglesey County Council has granted consent to Eon and Eurus Energy’s 11-turbine Rhyd y Groes repowering near Rhosgoch in North Wales.
The TPG Wind Ltd joint venture will build six 900kW turbines with a tip height of 79 metres, three 900kW turbines with a 70-metre tip height and two 900kW turbines with a tip height of 66 metres.
The 9.9MW scheme will be situated within the same area as the existing Rhyd y Groes wind farm, which will be decommissioned as part of the consent for the repowering.
The application submitted in April 2015 was initially for 13 turbines.
Following consultation with the relevant authorities, local communities and the general public, two turbines were removed from the scheme, and three turbines reduced in height.
TPG Wind’s agent is Aberystwyth-based consultancy Natural Power.
Natural Power planning and development principal John Woodruff said: “It is particularly nice to see this repowering consent as the application for the original Rhyd y Groes was consented by Natural Power’s present managing director, Ted Leeming, in the early 1990s.”
Image: Rhyd y Groes, Anglesey (Eric Jones)
