Fforch Nest Wind Farm pt2

7 turbines · operational · Mid Glamorgan

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionMid Glamorgan
Turbines7
Installed capacity17.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Pennant Walters
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted March 2006 Permission granted May 2011 Permission expired May 2011 Under construction October 2011 Operational May 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3932.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 62 months. Construction to first power took about 19 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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