Energy secretary Ed Miliband has signed the development consent order for the Mona offshore wind project.
Mona will be located entirely in Welsh waters in the east Irish Sea. The array area is 28.8 km from the north coast of Wales at the closest point, 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.
It is being developed by an Anglo-German joint venture of BP Alternative Energy Investments Limited and Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG (EnBW). Kent is providing the front-end engineering design.
Mona includes up to 96 turbines, generating around 1.5GW of electricity as well as four offshore substation platforms up to 60 metres high, along with offshore interconnector cables, inter-array cables and export cables.
The turbines鈥� rotor blade diameter is 320 metres while the maximum blade tip height is 364 metres.
The project also involves onshore cables and an onshore substation.
The 拢4.8bn estimate cost includes development and project management, financing, land acquisition and construction.
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