Ffynnon Oer Wind Farm

16 turbines · operational · West Glamorgan

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWest Glamorgan
Turbines16
Installed capacity32 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.0

♻️ Project timeline

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

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted November 2002 Permission granted May 2003 Operational December 2005 Permission expired May 2013

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 4677.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 6 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 21 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.