25 Feb 2025
Rampion Offshore Wind Farm achieves 2024 energy target
RWE-operated Rampion Offshore Wind Farm achieved its energy target in 2024, generating enough electricity to power the equivalent of over 409,000 homes1 – around half the homes in Sussex - with clean, green energy, while reducing CO2 emissions by about 600,000 tonnes a year.
“As we go into our eighth year of operation, we are proud to have once again met our target, and to have continued to recruit and employ local people at our operations base in Newhaven,” said Dan Allen-Baines, General Manager, Rampion Offshore Wind Farm.
“We are particularly proud of our apprenticeship programme: Rampion has been one of the UK’s first offshore wind farms to fulfil site technician roles directly from the apprenticeship scheme. We also take on a steady flow of work experience students to find out what it’s like working in the renewable energy sector.”
To date, 16 apprenticeships have been placed in the project, and it is expected that in the future around 10-20% of the technician workforce will be employed through the our apprenticeship programme.
Rampion Offshore Wind Farm also runs the Rampion Visitor Centre on Brighton Seafront, a free resource and attraction where visitors and local people, including parties of school children, can learn about clean, green energy generation and how Rampion works. The Rampion Community Benefit Fund, managed by the Sussex Community Foundation, has provided £2.1 million in grants and supported over 200 Sussex community projects.
“Rampion benefits the local community not only by allowing us to play our part in tackling the climate crisis and secure energy supplies but in providing jobs and support for local people,” continued Dan Allen-Baines.
1 Over the course of the year Rampion Offshore Wind Farm generated enough electricity to meet the average annual domestic energy needs of 409,000 typical UK homes. This calculation is based on 2021 generation, and assuming average (mean) annual household consumption of 3,509 kWh, based on latest statistics from Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (Subnational Electricity and Gas Consumption Statistics Regional and Local Authority, Great Britain, 2021, Mean domestic electricity consumption (kWh per meter) by country/region, Great Britain, 2021).