🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Braich Ddu
Gwynedd

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 3 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

3
turbines
3.9 MW
MW total
1.3 MW
per turbine

📍 3 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 52.60077 N · 3.89048 W.

Braich Ddu

3 turbines · operational · Gwynedd

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGwynedd
Turbines3
Installed capacity3.9 MW
Turbine capacity1.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)REG Windpower (previously Cornwall Light and Power)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

→ ~203020052010201520202025today123
  1. 1Mar 2004 — Application submitted
  2. 2Sep 2004 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2007 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Sep 2000, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4022.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 6 months. A planning permission on this site expired in September 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 19 years. That works out at 1.3 MW per turbine on average.

Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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