🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Fforch Nest Wind Farm pt2
Mid Glamorgan

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7
turbines
17.5 MW
MW total
2.5 MW
per turbine

📍 7 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.60446 N · 3.49685 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Mar 2006 — Application submitted
  2. 2May 2011 — Permission granted
  3. 3Oct 2011 — Under construction
  4. 4May 2013 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in May 2011, 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 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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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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