RWE opens Welsh wind farm

updated 9:31 a.m. ET Dec. 2, 2009

FRANKFURT - German utility RWE AG said Wednesday it opened the Rhyl Flats wind farm off the northern coast of Wales which will be able to power some 60,000 homes.

RWE said the 25 Siemens turbines with the capacity to produce 90 megawatts was the largest wind farm so far off the Welsh coast.

RWE, based in Essen, and one of Europe's largest utilities, already operates the North Hoyle wind farm off the coast of Wales, with the capacity to produce 60 megawatts. It's planning yet another Welsh wind farm, Gwynt y Mor, which will have several hundred megawatts of capacity, RWE said.

The company said it is continuing to invest in European wind farm projects, including the development stages for the 30 megawatt Thornton Bank wind farm in Belgium, and two German North Sea projects with more than 1,200 megawatts of combined capacity, also in development stages.

Shares of RWE were slightly higher at euro62.60 ($94.46) in Frankfurt afternoon trading.

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