Proposals
The Mona Offshore Wind Project will be located entirely in Welsh waters in the east Irish Sea. At the closest points the array area is 28.8 km from the north coast of Wales, 46.9 km from the northwest coast of England, and 46.6 km from the Isle of Man.
It has a landfall near Llanddulas, Conwy on the North Wales coastline and a proposed connection to the existing Bodelwyddan National Grid substation in Denbighshire.
Mona includes offshore elements, to generate electricity, and both offshore and onshore elements to enable the transmission of the electricity generated to the national grid:
- Wind turbine generators (up to 96 turbines, generating around 1.5GW of electricity)
- Four offshore substation platforms
- Offshore interconnector cables, inter-array cables and export cables
- Four transition joint bays (connecting the offshore and onshore cables)
- Onshore cables
- Onshore substation
- Connection into the existing Bodelwyddan National Grid Substation