Gwynt Y Môr Offshore Wind Farm
Gwynt means ''wind'' in Welsh and may refer to *Castell y Gwynt, a top of the Glyder Fach mountain in north-west Wales *Gwynt y Môr, an offshore wind farm near North Wales *The Wind (poem) "The Wind" (Welsh: ''Y Gwynt'') is a 64-line love poem in the form of a ''cywydd'' by the 14th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym. Dafydd is widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets, and this is one of his most highly praised works. Rac ...

Castell Y Gwynt
Castell y Gwynt is a top of Glyder Fach in Snowdonia, north-west Wales. It has the merit of being the only 3000 ft Welsh summit classed as only a Nuttall, hence it is not included in the Welsh 3000s. It has a prominence of 15.7 m (51.5 ft), and was only included on the Nuttall's list after re-surveying in 2007. The top is more famous as a feature than a summit. Castell y Gwynt and the "Cantilever Stone" featured in the 1981 film ''Dragonslayer A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classifica ...''.Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). ''The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales'' (2nd edition). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. . References External links www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Glyder Fach Capel Curig Mountains and hills of Snowdonia Nuttalls Mountains and hills o ...
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Gwynt Y Môr
is a 576-megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm located off the coast of north Wales and is the fifth largest operating offshore windfarm in the world. The farm has 160 wind turbines of tip height above mean sea level. Planning consent for the project was granted on 3 December 2008. The project has a value of 2 billion Euros, of which 1.2 billion Euros were spent on turbines and electrical connections. Construction began in 2012, power production started in September 2013, construction phase ended in November 2014, and final commissioning occurred in June 2015. In May 2020 plans to add up to 107 new turbines were submitted to Flintshire Council, increasing the windfarm by an extra 41 square miles, with a generating capacity of at least 100 megawatts. Design and planning As with all offshore wind farms in the UK the Crown Estate owns the seabed at Gwynt y Môr. It has agreed to lease the land to RWE npower renewables. The wind farm is located close to the existing North Hoyle an ...
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