A group of Sussex MPs, newly-elected in 2024, visited the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm on a crew transfer vessel to learn more about how the offshore wind farm works and hear about the future Rampion 2 project [18 July 2025]. They sailed around the wind farm and saw a turbine up close to experience the sheer power of the wind.
Alison Bennet MP for Mid Sussex, Alison Griffiths MP for Bognor Regis & Littlehampton, Dr Beccy Cooper MP for Worthing West, James MacCleary MP for Lewes, Jess Brown-Fuller MP for Chichester, John Milne MP for Horsham and Tom Rutland MP for East Worthing & Shoreham donned safety equipment and headed out to the Rampion Wind Farm, eight miles offshore, on a bright day with calm seas.
“We were delighted to host the MPs and give them an insight into the original and very successful Rampion Wind Farm, and we’re grateful to our Rampion colleagues in Newhaven for taking us to the wind farm in their crew transfer vessel,” said Chris Tomlinson, Development & Stakeholder Manager for Rampion 2, who hosted the trip.
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, awarded consent for the Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm in April. Rampion 2 could power the equivalent of over one million homes1 and reduce carbon emissions by around 1.8 million tonnes2 per year.
Chris Tomlinson, Stakeholder Manager for the project, said, “It was wonderful to meet a number of MPs who were elected last year, to introduce them to the Rampion 2 proposals, which when combined with the operating Rampion Wind Farm, could power the entire electricity demand for the whole of Sussex3.”
Rampion 2 is being developed by RWE, one of the UK’s most established and experienced renewable energy producers and a global leader in offshore wind. RWE is developing the project on behalf of a joint venture company which includes a Macquarie-led consortium, a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc. (a leading North American energy infrastructure company) and RWE.
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1 Based on an average annual domestic household electricity consumption of 3,509 kWh (Dept Energy Security & Net Zero, 2024).
2 the calculation made using a static figure of 446g/kWh representing the energy mix in the UK (BEIS, July 2020)
3 Based on total electricity consumption (GWh) in East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove 2022 (DESNZ, 2024)