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Project Introduction Tuesday 28 January 2020 Aims of todays meeting Meet you and introduce the Awel y Mr team Introduce the project location, scale, timeline Opportunity to have your say Key contacts and future points of


  1. Project Introduction Tuesday 28 January 2020

  2. Aims of today’s meeting Meet you and introduce the Awel y Môr team • Introduce the project – location, scale, timeline • Opportunity to have your say • Key contacts and future points of communication • Next steps •

  3. innogy Renewables UK Ltd Largest renewable energy operator in Wales Long presence in Wales – offshore, onshore & hydro • Produce 1/3 of Wales’ renewable electricity (550k homes) • 130+ permanent employees across 4 offices in Wales • Operate 3 offshore wind farms off North Wales coast: • Gwynt y Môr, 576MW • Rhyl Flats, 90MW • North Hoyle, 60MW • + extension proposal: Awel y Môr • Operate 2 (soon to be 3) onshore wind farms • Six hydro sites – Dolgarrog over 100 years old! • Significant contribution to Welsh Government’s targets : • 70% electricity from Welsh renewable sources by 2030 • “Net - zero” by 2050 •

  4. Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Project Overview

  5. Project key messages The Crown Estate offered an Agreement for Lease (AfL) for extension of • Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in October 2019 . One of seven UK extension sites. ‘Sister’ project to Gwynt y Môr – called Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm • ( “breeze of the sea” ). Great opportunity to help Wales’ net zero targets. Innogy is proud to be leading the development on behalf of its partners • The project is in its very early stages. Exact size and capacity still to be • determined. Initial consenting work is just beginning with early stakeholder and community engagement programme to help determine the project details – a process due to take up to three years. The project is a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) and • therefore requires a Development Consent Order (DCO) . Being in Welsh waters, it will also require a separate Marine Licence.

  6. Site characteristics Location: 11km north of Llandudno and 10km off the Welsh coast in the Irish Sea • West of existing Gwynt y Môr Wind Farm • Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs): Unconfirmed but, at time of • construction, 12-22MW turbines possible Foundation types: Monopile/multi-leg • Extension area: 106km² • Grid connection point: Bodelwyddan (still TBC) • Shareholders / project owners: Discussions still ongoing •

  7. High level project timeline

  8. Planning Inspectorate: DCO application process c.2 yrs 28 days c.4 m 6 m 6 m 6 wks

  9. Planned Stakeholder Engagement Offshore, onshore & combined topic engagement Local community & local businesses

  10. Thank you www.awelymor.co.uk

  11. Awel y Môr Project Team Role Contact Email Senior Consents Manager Paul Carter paul.carter@innogy.com Offshore Consents Manager Alex Herbert alex.herbert@innogy.com Onshore Consents Manager Karen Algate karen.algate@innogy.com Stakeholder & Consents Manager Helen Thomas helen.thomas@innogy.com Project Manager Tamsyn Rowe tamsyn.rowe@innogy.com Public Relations Ffion Davies ffion.davies@innogy.com 11

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