Bryn Blaen Wind Farm

6 turbines · operational · Powys

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionPowys
Turbines6
Installed capacity13.8 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip height100 m
Operator (or applicant)Njord Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Permission expired August 2014 Application submitted December 2014 Permission granted August 2016 Granted on appeal August 2016 Under construction June 2017 Operational January 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2873.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 20 months. Construction to first power took about 19 months. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in August 2016. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2014. The scheme has been operating for about 7 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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