Turbine Transfers creates 20 Gwynt y Mor wind farm jobs

An Anglesey firm has landed a multimillion-pound contract as part of the project to build the Gwynt y Mor wind farm off the north Wales coast.

Gwynt y Mor, which is being built 13km off the coast, is said to be one of the largest offshore wind farms in construction in Europe. Once fully operational, energy generation is expected to be equivalent to the average annual needs of around 400,000 homes.

Twenty jobs will be created by Holyhead-based Turbine Transfers to provide six crew vessels to ferry workers to the windfarm site. Vessels will operate from Flintshire's Port of Mostyn, where part of the turbines are built and the River Mersey at Birkenhead.

Project officials said the contract brings total investment in Wales by the wind farm to over £80m.

Business Minister Edwina Hart said: "It is vitally important that large-scale energy projects such as Gwynt y Mor support the regional economy and create jobs locally.

"Businesses across Wales should maximise on the economic potential of power generation to create jobs, wealth and growth as the Welsh government works to develop a new low-carbon economy."

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